Hugh Thomson’s travel books include The White Rock: An
Exploration of the Inca Heartland and Cochineal Red, both about
Peru, as well as Nanda Devi, a journey to a usually inaccessible
part of the Himalaya. His memoir Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in
Mexico was serialised by BBC Radio 4.
Hugh has led many research expeditions to Peru and is one of
Britain's leading explorers of Inca settlements. He has also taken
filming expeditions to Mount Kilimanjaro, Bhutan, Afghanistan and
the Mexican Sierra Madre.
‘Thomson belongs to a rare species of explorer. He is a writer who
explores and not an explorer who writes. And it is Thomson’s
extreme humility in the face of both danger and extraordinary
success that places him in the same tradition as Eric Newby.’
Geographical.
For The Green Road into the Trees, he returned to Britain to write
about his own country. It won the inaugural Wainwright Prize for
Nature and Travel Writing.
For the sequel, One Man and a Mule, Hugh decided to have ‘a South
American adventure in England’ by taking a mule as a pack animal
across the North.
'Everywhere Thomson goes, he finds good stories to tell.' New York
Times Book Review
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One Man and Mule is a lovely, good-natured and highly informative
journey through the hinterland, emphasizing the human scale of
England in all its peculiarities - evocative and wonderfully
observed.
*Paul Theroux*
[I]t marks rivers, county boundaries, towns and villages relevant
to the story, and the route the author took from St Bees on the
Irish Sea, the most westerly point of northern England, to Robin
Hood’s Bay on the North Sea. The remote, random, meandering nature
of this hugely enjoyable peregrination could not have been better
expressed… there is evocative writing of nature and landscape
beyond the entertainment.
*Observer*
A thoroughly readable and discursive ramble through visually
stimulating and historically fascinating countryside… A perfect
book to take on your next holiday
*Country Life*
Terrific fun
*Irish Times*
Thomson’s gently blokeish bonhomie is never less than diverting and
his gently meandering account the ideal easy-going beach read
*The Lady*
Thomson writes beguilingly
*Daily Mail*
Like all travel books, it is a potpourri of journey log, historical
notebook, social observation and agricultural and rural comment.
Thomson writes wittily, his deep understanding of landscape and
nature coupled with a powerful descriptive capacity and good ear
for dialogue.
*Country & Townhouse*
An enjoyable refuge from everyday life
*The Times*
A wonderful witty and personal journey, this paints a vivid and
beautiful picture of Britain and its history
*NFU Countryside*
Companionable account of a coast-to-coast walk across England
*Telegraph*
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