TSCHIFFELY'S RIDE A. F. Tschiffely 1 873429 70 3 £12.99 234 pp plus 16 pp lates Pbk with flaps 140 by 215 mm portrait The word 'classic' is not lightly to be thrown about. But if this doesn't become one, the spirit of the race must be waning Sir John Squires in The Daily Telegraph It may be that this is the greatest animal story ever written Current Literature Written so confidently it makes one feel one is sharing in each experience Punch Aimé Tschiffely had been teaching in an English-American school in Argentina for nine years when he conceived the idea of making the 10,000 mile journey on horseback from Buenos Aires to New York. In April 1925 he set out with two native Argentine horses, Mancho and Gato, and with rugged determination the trio traversed the Pampas, scaled the Bolivian Andes, struggled through Peruvian sands, swam crocodile infested rivers in Columbia and fought their way through the jungles of Panama. They crossed Central America through countries devastated by years of war to reach the United States and perhaps, for horses, the greatest danger of all - metalled roads and speeding traffic, for which reason journey's end was Washington DC followed by a reception in New York. The three were together, virtually isolated, for more than two years, and Tschiffely developed a unique relationship with the two horses, an affinity which has seldom been equalled. The journey records a world that improved communication has committed to history. Tschiffely's Ride is one of the great equine adventures of all time.