The Long Ride

Saddle Up for The Long Ride.

Lucian Spataro Jr., Ph.D. | Foreword by Jane Goodall, Ph.D.

The Long Ride is a vivid, sweeping and passionate story about a modern day adventure that puts you firmly in the saddle, on the back of a beautiful Arabian horse, and sets you upon a record-setting ride through small towns and big cities across America.

It is the story of a team with a very specific purpose—a team of people and their Arabian horses on a coast-to-coast journey to set a record and draw attention to the destruction of the world’s rainforests. In this second book about his horseback ride, Spataro demonstrates the wit, eloquence and insight that inspired a legion of people to become involved in the ride and interested in the pressing rainforest issue.

With hundreds of photos from Spataro’s collection and historic sources, The Long Ride is a beautiful chronology of a place in time when three horses and a team of people were doing the “right thing” against very long odds; their perseverance is even more inspiring today, twenty years later.

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Awards for The Long Ride

• 2012 IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year Gold Award for the book “Most Likely to Save the Planet”
• 2012 IBPA’s Benjamin Franklin Bronze Award for Autobiography/Memoir
• 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award Finalist in Environment, Nature and Travel Essays