B02 - Riding by Faith across North America - Hardback Book
B02. Riding by Faith across North America - Hardback Book
310 photographic pages. Size 225mm x 265mm. Hardback.
Tracey’s adventurous journey from Mexico to Canada across America began with a dream, playing cowboys and Indians as a child riding her pony on Dartmoor in south west England.
In this book, together with beautiful photographs, she gives an inspirational, informative and humorous taste of life in the American West past and present as she courageously travels with her two quarter horses, Smoky and Pistol.
Please click on my short film clip below to have a taster of my photographic book and some of our many adventures we had crossing America.
They covered several thousand miles across desert, prairies, mountains and through the territory of snakes, drug smugglers, wild animals and extreme weather. By faith she lived her dream.
Please click on the link below to see a short video about Tracey’s journey across America via YouTube:
Review from The Daily Telegraph
Tracey Elliot Reep is a modern adventuress with a towering faith in God who travels by horseback and sets her sights on big goals.
She’s ridden alone across New Zealand, but this book traces her journey from Mexico to Canada with only her two horses Smoky and Pistol for company. She is an excellent photographer and this engaging account of her trip is illustrated by numerous wonderful pictures of the challenging terrain she encountered – snowy mountains, desert prairies, swollen river. What makes her journey more remarkable was the fact that she carried all her own kit including her tiny tent in which she camped out alone, much to the amusement of many of the Americans she met on her journey.
A beautiful account of the changing landscape of the United States this is also an inspirational book about following your dreams and proof that even in today’s world there are still plenty of big adventures to be had.
The pages of this book feature breathtaking photographs of the Wild West its animals and many friends. Not only is it a delightful read but she cleverly relates to the environment and aspects of American history associated with the states she rides through. I am left with the strong sense that this lady has the courage and perseverance that would be the envy of many soldiers….and that, coming from a former commander in Her Majesty’s Forces, must be saying something.
Brigadier Simon Young CBE
This book gives the readers a riveting record of Tracey’s action-packed journey detailing all her adventures and hardships. Her abilities as a fine photographer are show in the shinning array of images captured on her six-month journey.
Glenn Price, Journalist, Herald Express
This is an epic book filled with adventure, danger and inspiration, with 350 awe-inspiring photographs. It is a travelogue of an incredible journey with her two horses, with some amazing experiences and one defined by the hospitality and kindness of the people she met. The quote from C S Lewis sums up this book: “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.
Lucy Johnson, Journalist
Have just finished reading the above, Outstanding and I learned so much about the areas in which you crossed. I have travelled widely in the US, by car and train. my most recent from Chicago to SFC via Denver and Salt Lake City. a great train ride I’m a very active motor cyclists and with my son in law we have travelled every country in Westen Europe and Scandanavia, Finland excepted. You certainly have guts and faith to travel alone over such terrain Good luck i your future travels BL Brian Livings – 16.8.24
I love your books you have written about your adventures! Pamela Adler
Fantastic! Robin Hayden, Chipping Norton, Oxforsshire
Levi
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to treasure!
I have just finished reading this book and I have started to read it again straight away! The photos all throughout the book are just beautiful and make you feel as though you are there with Tracey on her epic ride across America. Also I found the inspirational quotes and thoughts to be really uplifting and encouraging. Her account of the journey and the many people she met on the way is immensely readable and enjoyable, and it definitley made me want to visit America and experience being in that wilderness and seeing the wildlife for myself. Actually the book inspired me to go horse riding again myself after not going for years, and it reminded me that life is too short to let your dreams slip by, but instead to make the most of every opportunity and life life to the full!
Extract
“After the dryness of Texas and New Mexico it was refreshing to hear the gushing water in the creeks as we followed the Rio Grande the United States third largest river to its source in the San Juan Mountains. I had crossed the same river on the border of Mexico far down its 1,800-mile journey towards the Gulf of Mexico. Its a river that has always been important for wildlife travellers and settlers. Pueblo Indians based their agriculture on irrigation water from the Rio Grande long before the Spanish colonists arrived in Colorado in the 16th Century.”
A wonderful and inspiring read, with beautiful images. I also loved the mixture of quotations, scriptural and secular.
Chris
Thank you for your superb book Across America!! I absolutely love it- Astonishing photos of the glorious country, people and horses – with texts and sayings that are so true and should not be forgotten ever. I gave the Irish book to my daughter in New Zealand who loves it too. Hope to be given your Europe book for Christmas! All the best for your business and future travels.
Anne, Essex
