RUPERT ISAACSON

La búsqueda de un padre para sanar a su hijoCuando los médicos determinaron que su hijo Rowan padecía autismo la noticia hundió a Rupert Isaacon, quien temió que jamás lograría comunicarse bien con el niño. Aunque pronto se dio cuenta de que cuando montaba el caballo de su vecino junto con Rowan, el niño parecia mejorar visiblemente de su trastorno. A Isaacson, un experto jinete, se le ocurrio entonces una idea disparatada: llevar a Rowan a Mongolia, elunico lugar en el mundo donde los caballos y la medicina sanadora de los chamanes se entrelazan profundamente.El niño del caballo es la dramatica y conmovedora historia de esa aventura imposible. En Mongolia, la familia hallo unos paisajes y unas personas increibles, unos obstaculos casi insalvables y unos progresos que ni siguiera habian soñado poder lograr. Esta es una historia profundamente emotiva y singular, la de una familia dispuesta a ir al find el mundo con tal de ayudar a su hijo, y la de un niño que aprende a conectar con el mundo por primera vez.

La búsqueda de un padre para sanar a su hijo Cuando los médicos determinaron que su hijo Rowan padecía autismo la noticia hundió a Rupert Isaacon, quien temió que jamás lograría comunicarse bien con el niño. Aunque pronto se dio cuenta de que cuando montaba el caballo de su vecino junto con Rowan, el niño parecia mejorar visiblemente de su trastorno. A Isaacson, un experto jinete, se le ocurrio entonces una idea disparatada: llevar a Rowan a Mongolia, el unico lugar en el mundo donde los caballos y la medicina sanadora de los chamanes se entrelazan profundamente. El niño del caballo es la dramatica y conmovedora historia de esa aventura imposible. En Mongolia, la familia hallo unos paisajes y unas personas increibles, unos obstaculos casi insalvables y unos progresos que ni siguiera habian soñado poder lograr. Esta es una historia profundamente emotiva y singular, la de una familia dispuesta a ir al find el mundo con tal de ayudar a su hijo, y la de un niño que aprende a conectar con el mundo por primera vez.

Best-seller international, traduit dans plus de trente langues, LEnfant cheval racontait un voyage insens : celui dun pre et de son fils autiste travers les steppes de Mongolie. Le petit Rowan stait veill la vie au terme de cet incroyable priple, aid par le pouvoir des chamans et le contact avec les chevaux. Mais, un an aprs, il se met rgresser. Son pre se souvient alors des mots dun chaman : il faudra encore trois voyages pour le relier dfinitivement au monde.LEnfant et le cheval de vent donne vie cette nouvelle aventure, de leur rencontre avec les Bushmen de Namibie et les Aborignes du Queensland en Australie celle des indiens Navajos du sud-ouest des tats-Unis. Nourri par la magnifique nergie de lamour dun pre pour son fils, un rcit poignant, unique et plein despoir, tout autant quun document passionnant sur lenfance et le handicap. Tout, dans cette histoire, laisse penser que quelque chose quil sagisse de la puissance de lesprit, des rites traditionnels, ou peut-tre de la magie pure peut aider un enfant autiste coup de tout sveiller pleinement au monde. The Daily Mail

A heartwarming story about a familys journey across the world to help their newly diagnosed autistic son find his true self through his unbelievable bond with horses. When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbors horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not take Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersected?The Horse Boy is the dramatic and heartwarming story of that impossible adventure. In Mongolia, the family found undreamed of landscapes and people, unbearable setbacks, and advances beyond their wildest dreams. This is a deeply moving, truly one-of-a-kind storyof a family willing to go to the ends of the earth to help their son, and of a boy learning to connect with the world for the first time.

A brilliantly written exploration part travel writing, part personal quest of Africas oldest and most famous population The Bushmen have long been mythologised and are firmly entrenched in the Western mind. But what is it about hunter-gatherers that is so attractive us, and why do we need these myths? Fascinated by this disappearing population, Rupert Isaacson has been venturing into the Kalahari since he was a child and his book is a search for this truth about the Bushmen through Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Part travel writing, part history of the Bushmen, part personal quest, it will record what he finds there, the landscapes he travels through, the wildlife he hunted and ate, the characters, corruption and confusion of a people who have wrenched themselves out of the Stone Age (it wasnt until 1948 that it became illegal to kill Bushmen) into a cash economy over the past ten years.

Heart-breaking, uplifting and full of adventure, The Long Ride Home is the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Horse Boy. Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone.But a year almost to the day since Rowans improvement he started regressing: the accidents and tantrums reappeared, terrifying his father Rupert. Something had to be done.Father and son embarked on a new quest, journeying from the bushmen of Namibia to the coastal rainforests of Queensland, Australia and finally to the Navajo reservations of the American southwest, where Rowan was transformed - they had begun the Long Ride Home.It is probably only once in a critical lifetime that one will be moved almost to tears ... a triumph of the human spiritTelegraph (on The Horse Boy)Magical, miraculous, upliftingDaily Mail (on The Horse Boy)Amazing, astonishingSunday Times (on The Horse Boy)Rupert Isaacson is British but lives with his family in Texas, USA. He is an ex-professional horse trainer and founder of The Horse Boy Foundation, which helps to make horses and nature available to other children, autistic or not, all over the world, including the UK. The Horse Boy was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.

When their son Rowan was born, Rupert and Kristins dream had come true. But the dream became a nightmare when their beautiful boy developed a disorder that left him incapable of communication, tormented by raging fits, requiring 24-hour care - and shattering their lives.Then, one day, father and son were walking in the woods near their house and stumbled across their neighbours old brown horse, Betsy. What happened next was unlike anything Rupert had ever seen. Certainly, the effect on Betsy was extraordinary: she went stock-still and bowed her head, wide-eyed and quivering before the child. But when Rupert lifted Rowan onto Betsys back, the effect on his son was nothing short of miraculous: Rowan started to speak...Shaken but exhilarated, Rupert proposed that the family make a journey to the ancient homeland of the horse, deep in the wilds of Mongolia, where hed heard astonishing stories of healing and transformation. So began an epic journey on horseback, from their home in Texas to the furthest reaches of the planet - a journey that would test their love, challenge their beliefs, and change their lives.