The long ride home : the extraordinary journey of healing that changed a child's life / Rupert Isaacson.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Viking, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241971338Subject(s): Isaacson, Rupert | Isaacson, Rowan | Autistic children -- United States -- Biography | Parents of autistic children -- United States -- Biography | Horses -- Therapeutic use | Human-animal relationships | Fathers and sonsDDC classification: 618.92858820092 Summary: Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia (the story told in Isaacson's 'Horse Boy') a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone. But a year later, they returned, and father and son embarked on a new quest, journeying from the bushmen of Namibia to the coastal rainforests of Queensland, Australia and finally to the Navajo reservations of the American southwest, where Rowan was transformed - they had begun the Long Ride Home.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia (the story told in Isaacson's 'Horse Boy') a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone. But a year later, they returned, and father and son embarked on a new quest, journeying from the bushmen of Namibia to the coastal rainforests of Queensland, Australia and finally to the Navajo reservations of the American southwest, where Rowan was transformed - they had begun the Long Ride Home.
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