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One reviewer described “Bohemia Junction” as ‘Forty years of adventurous living condensed into one book.” It is all that and more! Aimé Tschiffely was the most famous equestrian traveler of the twentieth century because of his legendary 10,000 mile ride from Argentina to Washington DC in 1925. Readers won’t be surprised then to discover that exotic people, faraway places and equestrian adventure make up the background to the explorer’s autobiography. “Bohemia Junction” is packed with the amazing assortment of humanity that Tschiffely met during his lifetime of travel, including cowboys, prize-fighters, writers, Indians, and the eccentric riff-raff of three continents. From Cape Horn to New York, Tschiffely journeyed wherever his vagabond fancy took him. And each region explored had its quota of “bohemians” in the old sense of the word – men and women for whom love of adventure was a reality. “Bohemia Junction” delivers more than just an account of the famous equestrian traveler’s life. It gives the reader an exuberant drama, peopled by the reckless rough-necks of a now bygone age. No equestrian travel collection is complete without this timeless classic.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590482766 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | The Long Riders' Guild |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2001 |
| Pages: | 324 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d) |
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 13 | |
| Chapter I17 | ||
| Odd childhood recollections | ||
| Bad scholar becomes teacher | ||
| Arrival in London | ||
| Bill and Ivy Gristin and their lodging-houses | ||
| Happy days in the Maison Gristin, and teaching in Preparatory schools | ||
| Chapter II34 | ||
| Glimpses of London pre- 1914 | ||
| The Reverend Crimpus Jilt, M.A. and A. Stintall, B.A. | ||
| Gristinian "steadies" and other lodgers | ||
| Meeting the amazing "Sophocles" who discovers a modern prophet | ||
| Chapter III50 | ||
| Park Hill days | ||
| A Cockney outing to Hampstead Heath | ||
| About Sophocles and his philosophy | ||
| Russian wrestlers in training | ||
| "Moonlight flits" and other escapades | ||
| Unwritten rules and regulations of the Maison Gristin | ||
| Chapter IV63 | ||
| Sophocles and Grand Opera | ||
| Adventures in old London boxing rings | ||
| "Professor" Andrew Newton and his Academy | ||
| Chapter V78 | ||
| Raymond Duncan holds forth in the Dore Galleries | ||
| News from his "Akademia" in Paris | ||
| Thumb-nail sketch of the Duncan family | ||
| Sophocles' departure to Russia | ||
| Chapter VI88 | ||
| The Reverend Crimpus Jilt has several adventures | ||
| Ida McUgly becomes a mother | ||
| Taxi-driver Bert Gristin truns up with a mysterious merchant | ||
| The First World War breaks out | ||
| A joking jockey | ||
| Denny, the Irish newspaper-vendor | ||
| Chapter VII102 | ||
| Repercussions of the War | ||
| A thoroughly conscientious objector | ||
| The Reverend Crimpus Jilt joins the War Office staff, and plays a strategic trick | ||
| Bill Gristin expresses his weighty opinions concerning conscription and the war in general | ||
| Zeppelin raids, and what happened in the Maison Gristin during one of them | ||
| Chapter VIII113 | ||
| The Gristinian Criminal Investigation Department makes important discoveries which are duly celebrated | ||
| Bill Gristin's departure to the back of the Western Front | ||
| His participation in the "Big Push," and subsequent retirement from active service | ||
| Move to South America | ||
| Chapter IX121 | ||
| Arrival in Buenos Aires | ||
| An eventful railway journey into the heart of the Pampa | ||
| Romantic gaucho abode near a lagoon | ||
| Cattle-work and bronco-riding | ||
| Pampa night | ||
| The "Argentine Eton." | ||
| Chapter X134 | ||
| Remittance men | ||
| The Hotel "Universel." | ||
| A formidable old Irishman joins in a sailors' brawl | ||
| "Daddy" Long, the rebellious invalid, cures himself | ||
| Meeting with the redoubtable Bob Appin | ||
| Chapter XI145 | ||
| Bob Appin's "excursions," and how Tex Richard side-stepped him | ||
| Paraguayan interlude | ||
| The delightful game of "Bad Man." | ||
| Versatile Andrew Ewart meets explorer "Teddy" Roosevelt | ||
| Introducing Dr. Primo and Captain Heyday | ||
| Viva la revolucion and the International Two-Man Bridge! | ||
| Chapter XII161 | ||
| The urge of wanderlust | ||
| News from Sophocles and Stintall | ||
| Horses, gauchos and cattle | ||
| An ex-major of the Indian Army holds forth on horsemanship, and a stock-pony teaches him a lesson | ||
| A sheep-stealer's cunning trick of deception | ||
| Gaucho pride | ||
| The red horse | ||
| A certified gentleman joins the brotherhood of globetrotters | ||
| Chapter XIII176 | ||
| Monsieur le geologue | ||
| A mysterious Frenchman and his beautiful daughter | ||
| An aged American treasure-hunter | ||
| Meeting an outlaw | ||
| Drug-traffickers | ||
| A globe-trotter | ||
| Recipe for keeping a good cook | ||
| Chapter XIV189 | ||
| De luxe explorers | ||
| Jim the anthropoid and Jim the Monkey | ||
| An American seeks happiness among primitive Indians | ||
| Professor Max Uhle | ||
| "El Lobo" meets his death | ||
| Eavesdropping on political intriguers, and the sequel | ||
| Two kinds of duel | ||
| Chapter XV201 | ||
| Portrait under a black veil | ||
| A wise mule | ||
| Mexican revolutions | ||
| General Aspirina | ||
| Echoes from Pancho Villa's hectic days, and an anecdote connected with the famous outlaw | ||
| An eventful bullfight | ||
| "If these are roses ... " A Bohemian medico | ||
| Dipsomania and song | ||
| Archduke Maximilian's coffin | ||
| Chapter XVI215 | ||
| Laredo, Texas: a fright and a successful plot with a master-brewer | ||
| Smuggling egret feathers | ||
| Texas Rangers | ||
| My horse fails to appreciate Will Roger's sense of humour | ||
| Mayor "Jimmy" Walker, and a few yarns about prohibition | ||
| My first attempts at writing and lecturing | ||
| Flash-back regarding the sinking of the Vestris | ||
| Return to the Argentine, and a cheap passage back to the U.S.A. | ||
| The Odyssey of an oft-rejected manuscript | ||
| London once more | ||
| Chapter XVII231 | ||
| Two schoolmasters, among them the Reverend Crimpus Jilt, M.A., are mentioned in "dispatches." | ||
| Revisiting old haunts | ||
| Visions of the past, and an incongruous apparition | ||
| Happy reunions with old Cockney friends | ||
| Visit to a colony of circus artists | ||
| How I came to meet Cunninghame Graham, and what this meeting led to | ||
| Chapter XVIII245 | ||
| A strange coincidence connected with the house in which W. H. Hudson died | ||
| After many years, again I call on "Professor" Andrew Newton | ||
| Cocktail and other parties | ||
| Circuses, theatres and life | ||
| "Brixton cowboys" and variety artists | ||
| Chapter XIX261 | ||
| Going into double harness | ||
| Hail and farewell, General Rafael de Nogales | ||
| Chapter XX274 | ||
| Lectures, amusing and otherwise | ||
| Lord Lonsdale and his famous cigar | ||
| Another globe-trotter | ||
| Biographical sketch of John Burns | ||
| Expedition through Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego | ||
| E. Lucas Bridges, one of the greatest pioneers of modern times | ||
| Back to London, and across Ireland on a gipsy tour | ||
| The Second World War breaks out | ||
| Colin, the Alsatian dog | ||
| Sophocles reappears in London | ||
| Odd recollections connected with the "blitzes." | ||
| Chapter XXI297 | ||
| War days in London | ||
| Last visit to John Burns | ||
| Return to the Argentine | ||
| Submarine attack on convoy | ||
| Priorities, and an American's experiences connected with them | ||
| The adventures and travels of an exiled armadillo | ||
| Once more, adios, South America | ||
| Chapter XXII312 | ||
| Return to London | ||
| Brixtonia carries on | ||
| The modern Gristinian neighbourhood | ||
| "Professor" Andrew Newton's academy, 1949 | ||
| Sophocles reappears, soon after to cross the Stygian ferry | ||
| Epilogue | ||
| Index | 321 |
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