TY - BOOK AU - Isaacson,Rupert TI - The long ride home: the extraordinary journey of healing that changed a child's life SN - 9780241971338 U1 - 618.92858820092 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Viking KW - Isaacson, Rupert. KW - Isaacson, Rowan. KW - Autistic children KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Parents of autistic children KW - Horses KW - Therapeutic use KW - Human-animal relationships KW - Fathers and sons N2 - 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 ER -