- Published: 15 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780099592570
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
One Man and a Mule
Across England with a Pack Mule
- Published: 15 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780099592570
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
An enjoyable refuge from everyday life
The Times
Terrific fun
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
A thoroughly readable and discursive ramble through visually stimulating and historically fascinating countryside… A perfect book to take on your next holiday
Country Life
[I]t marks rivers, county boundaries, towns and villages relevant to the story, and the route the author took from St Bees on the Irish Sea, the most westerly point of northern England, to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea. The remote, random, meandering nature of this hugely enjoyable peregrination could not have been better expressed… there is evocative writing of nature and landscape beyond the entertainment.
Anthony Sattin, Observer
Thomson’s gently blokeish bonhomie is never less than diverting and his gently meandering account the ideal easy-going beach read
The Lady
A wonderful witty and personal journey, this paints a vivid and beautiful picture of Britain and its history
NFU Countryside
Thomson writes beguilingly
Daily Mail
Companionable account of a coast-to-coast walk across England
Telegraph
Entertaining
Deskbound Traveller Blog
Like all travel books, it is a potpourri of journey log, historical notebook, social observation and agricultural and rural comment. Thomson writes wittily, his deep understanding of landscape and nature coupled with a powerful descriptive capacity and good ear for dialogue.
Country & Townhouse
One Man and Mule is a lovely, good-natured and highly informative journey through the hinterland, emphasizing the human scale of England in all its peculiarities - evocative and wonderfully observed.
Paul Theroux