Publisher's Synopsis
In the Middle Ages, mules were used to transport goods across Britain. Now Hugh Thomson has revived that ancient tradition. Taking his cue from Robert Louis Stevenson's 19th-century bestseller Travels with a Donkey, Hugh leads his trusty mule, Jethro, across England from the Lake District to the Yorkshire Moors, using old droversâ_T roads that have largely passed into disrepair. As he crosses the north, he combines his trademark wit and insight with a lyrical intensity about the history and the landscape; and it is his encounters with the people he meets along the way which bring that landscape to life in a manner few other contemporary travel writers attempt.
