Description
In the Middle Ages, mules were used to transport goods across Britain. Now Hugh Thomson has revived that ancient tradition. Taking his cue from Robert Louis Stevenson's 19th-century bestseller Travels with a Donkey, Hugh leads his trusty mule, Jethro, across England from the Lake District to the Yorkshire Moors, using old drovers’ roads that have largely passed into disrepair. As he crosses the north, he combines his trademark wit and insight with a lyrical intensity about the history and the landscape; and it is his encounters with the people he meets along the way which bring that landscape to life in a manner few other contemporary travel writers attempt.