A glorious piece of rich, romantic travel writing that takes the reader along old paths, into ancient villages, sharing rural homes and stables of farmers and shepherds in the Ligurian Alps, Pyrenees, Basque country and Galician coast, from a brilliant new talent Charismatic author already part of adventure live events circuit story of a young man, an outlandish idea, a resilient bay Arab, and a late arrival called Coco who disrupts all their best laid plans, on an epic journey from Siena to Finistierre. Lush landscape writing reveals wildness and rural communities of Ligurian alps, South-West France and North-East Spain