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How do you resolve a midlife crisis? Margaret Winslow, an overworked college professor in New York City, answered a for-sale ad for a "Large White Saddle Donkey." Hilarity ensued, along with life-threatening injuries and spirit-enriching insight. Walk with Winslow and Caleb the donkey through training traumas, expert-baffling antics, and humiliating races, and share in Winslow's gradual understanding of Caleb's true, undeniable gifts: a willingness to be true to himself no matter the circumstances, to trust, and to forgive. As she and Caleb learn to thrive, you'll learn the importance of being true to your own pure and powerful self.
About the Author
Margaret Winslow is a field geologist with over thirty years of wilderness experience in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Antarctica, Alaska, and the Caribbean. She has published over thirty papers in international scientific journals. Her fieldwork on earthquake hazards and archaeological settlement patterns in Alaska and Chile is featured in the PBS series "Fire on the Rim." She is Professor of Earth Sciences at the City College of New York. She lives in the lower Hudson valley of New York with her husband, Joe Stennett, a retired oceanographer. They keep an Andalusian donkey, a corgi, and two cats.
Her hobbies include attempts to train her donkey, memoir writing, and hiking.
Of the many travel/adventure memoirs about experiences in the wilderness, few are written by women. And, unlike single-destination travel books, this memoir spans several years of deep engagement with the region which continues to the present day. Tierra del Fuego, at the very tip of South America, remains a mostly inaccessible and mysterious place. Few people have penetrated its many secrets before or since the author's experiences.
