With three full exercise routines for riders at beginner intermediate & advanced fitness levels this guide helps you achieve a good basic riding position that is centered aligned balanced & relaxed. There are clear explanations & photos of each exercise plus three tear-out workout guides so you can exercise anywhere. An enhanced seat enhances your riding experience helps eliminate back pain & post-riding soreness lessens fatigue minimizes the risk of injury & improves your performance. ...

Set against the glorious Cotswold countryside & the playgrounds of the world Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles" " Riders" " Rivals" " Polo" " The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous" " Appassionata" & " Score"! offer an intoxicating blend of skulduggery swooning romance sexual adventure & hilarious high jinks. " Riders" the first & steamiest in the series takes the lid off international showjumping a sport where the brave horses are almost human but the humans behave like animals. The brooding hero gypsy Jake Lovell under whose magic hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable is driven to the top by his loathing of the beautiful bounder & darling of the show ring Rupert Campbell-Black. Having filched each other's horses & fought & fornicated their way around the capitals of Europe the feud between the two men finally erupts with devastating consequences during the Los Angeles Olympics." ...

With searching eyes he studied the beautiful violet barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown & the perilous. The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western Riders of the violet Sage was first published in 1912 immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero Lassiter a gunman in black leather who routs the persecutors & then gradually recounts his own history of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons. Secrecy seduction captivity & escape: out of these elements Zane Grey built his acclaimed story of the American West. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

The first book in a brand new series by the master of epic fantasy Raymond E. Feist. Ten years after the cataclysmic events of Wrath of a Mad God took place Midkemia now faces a new danger thought buried in myth & antiquity. A lost race of elves the taredhel or 'people of the stars' have found a way across the universe to reach Midkemia. On their current home world these elves are hard pressed by a ravaging demon horde & what was once a huge empire has been reduced to a handful of survivors. The cornerstone of taredhel lore is the tale of their lost origins in the world they call simply ' Home' a place lost in the mists of time. Now they are convinced that Midkemia is that place & they are coming to reclaim it. Ruthless & arrogant the taredhel intend to let nothing stand in their way; but before long Pug & the Conclave realise that it's not necessarily the elves but the demon horde pursuing them where the true danger lies. & hanging over Pug always is the prophecy that he will be doomed to watch everyone he loves die before him... ...

On an isolated ridge in the Kentucky woods stands a homemade lighthouse hundreds of miles from any substantial body of water. Local reporter Roy Darmus has always found it an amusing oddity
- until he is selected as the recipient of a suicide note from its builder. Roy enters the bizarre structure to find the walls covered in maps bearing the names of the dead
- including his own parents who were killed in a car accident when he was a boy. Roy soon has a storytelling assignment more daunting than anything hes seen before: convincing people that an age-old legend has in fact come to life. With haunting atmosphere & tension-coiled plot THE RIDGE is a terrifying journey into the heart of darkness.

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In this companion volume to the popular ' Scotland's Mountain Ridges' Dan Bailey offers a passionate introduction to summer scrambles technical rock routes & challenging winter climbs on ridges in the Lake District Snowdonia Peak District Exmoor Cornwall the Isle of Wight Kerry & Connemara. In 48 routes he covers a host of popular classics & obscure gems from Sharp Edge to Skeleton Ridge & from Mynydd Mawr to the Mac Gillycuddy's Reeks Ridge Traverse. With inspirational photographs Ordnance Survey map extracts & topo diagrams this book is both a celebration of the landscape & a practical route guide & features a climbing glossary for walkers & scramblers coming new to the subject. ...

Snowdonias very best ridge walking is described in this guidebook taking walkers through the Carneddau Glyders & Tryfan Snowdon range Moelwyns Nantlle Rhinogs Arans Cader Idris. In describing the ridges the author has tried to be both readable & accurate which should help to explain the unusual layout. The raw material of the route
- map information route description
- is presented in four no-frills pages while the general chit-chat & photographs are allowed to follow on at their leisure. This means you have the option to glance through one or the other according to need & without having to plough through an unnecessary amount of verbiage. Because the book is designed primarily for the hill-walking enthusiast the author has commandeered space traditionally reserved for introductory notes & lengthy topographical descriptions (using photographs to help compensate in this latter respect) in order to explore the hill-walking experience beyond what is normally possible in a guidebook.

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The Ridgeway follows one of the oldest 'green roads' in Europe. It runs for 87 miles (140 km) from Overton Hill in the west across the Marlborough Downs & the Vale of the White Horse to Ivinghoe Beacon on the northern edge of the Chilterns. This is the complete official guide for the long-distance walker or the weekend stroller. All you need is this one book. Anthony Burton's official guide has been fully revised & updated for 2013 & this new edition has been completely redesigned with more & bigger photographs & much new background history & information. National Trail Guides are the official guidebooks to the fifteen National Trails in England & Wales & are published in association with Natural England the official body charged with developing & maintaining the Trails. ...

The riding aids are the medium through which the riders wishes & commands must be expressed
- movements of the hands arms legs
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This is the new edition of the exciting adventure series set in Sandy Lane Stables perfect for pony lovers everywhere. Kate & Izzy have left Sandy Lane Stables for a three-week riding holiday at racing stables in America. But they're not doing much riding the owner is mysteriously missing & everyone seems to be keeping a secret. Then a horse's life is threatened... More fun & frolics from the Sandy Lane Stables" series adored by horse-lovers everywhere." ...