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The Cunninghame Graham Collection
Robert Cunninghame
Graham (1852-1936) author, traveller explorer, politician and adventurer, was a
man of extraordinary talents, tireless energy and considerable courage. His
friend and contemporary Joseph Conrad remarked, “When I think of Cunninghame
Graham, I feel as though I have lived all my life in a dark hole without seeing
or knowing anything.”
In a crowded life —
Cunninghame Graham was variously a Member of Parliament, a gaucho in South America, a fencing
master, a founder member of both the Independent Labour Party and the Scottish
National Party, a rancher, horse-trainer, buffalo hunter and Long Rider through
North and South America — he wrote prolifically. Known as "Don Roberto," he was the author of travel
books, a biography, eleven histories of Latin America and fourteen volumes of
short stories and sketches.
In 1872 Cunninghame
Graham rode on horseback 600 miles up the river Parana to the Iguacu Falls,
researching the role of the early Jesuits with the local Indians. His subsequent
book, A Vanished Arcadia, was made into a film, The Mission
starring Jeremy Irons.
This special
collection of Don Roberto's most important books has been made possible by the
enthusiastic support of the Cunninghame Graham family. The highlight of
the collection is the newly-published biography of the Scottish patriot by his
great-niece, Jean Cunninghame Graham.
ISBN 1590481798 |
Gaucho Laird, Jean Cunninghame Graham - There once rode a
man whose life could not be compared to ordinary mortals. This gentleman
roamed the world, saddled every breed of horse, lived through a hundred
adventures, went to prison to defend his beliefs and wrote like an angel.
They called him Don
Roberto Cunninghame Graham and the world was a sadder place for having lost
sight of his great soul.
Yet how do you
encapsulate such a gigantic existence onto the cramped pages of a single
book? And who could possibly understand the life and times of a mounted
literary legend?
This stunning new
biography is the answer to both questions, for the book has been written by
the person who learned first hand from the Gaucho Laird himself.
Don Roberto’s
great-niece, Jean Cunninghame Graham, (Jean, Lady Polwarth) has written a
striking biography of the man who rode with the gauchos and battled social
injustice as a Member of Parliament in London.
First-hand knowledge, a treasure trove of family documents, unexpected
discoveries, and a delightful writing style all combine to bring the
author’s famous uncle to life.
“Jean’s Gaucho Laird is readable and lively, with lots of new
material. It is a distinctly vivid tribute to a great man,” said Professor
Cedric Watts, an expert on the life and accomplishments of the man who
championed Scottish home rule.
Regardless of where he was, or what great adventure he was involved in, Don
Roberto could be counted on to turn his keen eye and quick pen to recording
the colourful life swirling around him. His great-niece has now followed in
his footsteps, by bringing the Scottish Don Quixote to life at last.
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ISBN 1590481755 |
Horses of the Conquest, Robert Cunninghame Graham
- In this
modern-day era, with its inherent safeties and pasteurised heroes, how
difficult it is to relate to the bold men and their brave horses who came to
the New World.
Much has been
written about those Europeans known as the Conquistadors.
Beginning with
Columbus in the late 15th century, Iberian horses accompanied
their riders across turbulent seas, over miles of mountain trails, through
steaming jungles, and into cities of golden splendour. These saddle-borne
conquerors were quick to admit that, after God, they owed their good fortune
to their horses.
Many books have
recorded or reviled the Conquistadors.
No book ever
equalled this equine account of the horses that helped them make history.
The author, Don
Roberto Cunninghame Graham, was uniquely qualified to pen such an important
equestrian tale. Born in 1852 to a aristocratic Scottish family, Cunninghame
Graham spent his youth working as a gaucho in Argentina, before becoming an
outspoken Member of Parliament in London. A lifelong horseman, Don Roberto
was also one of the first European writers to defend the rights of native
peoples.
Fluent in Spanish, Cunninghame
Graham did extensive research into Spain’s archives, thereby discovering
manuscripts which had lain unread for centuries. The result was a book
written, Don Roberto says, out of gratitude to the horses who shaped
history. Amply illustrated with drawings of period horses, their riders and
various pieces of equestrian equipment, “Horses of the Conquest” remains one
of the most important equestrian books ever published.
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ISBN 1590481771 |
Mogreb-El-Acksa, Robert Cunninghame Graham - What rare spark
motivates a man to do the impossible – again and again? What manner of
man destroys the boundaries of the word “unobtainable” and replaces it with
the words “why not”? Meet Robert Cunninghame Graham, the author of
this book and a living legend of the late 19th century.
Disillusioned
with politics, the famous horseman sought solace in the saddle. His
mission?
To journey across
Morocco in 1897 by riding through the Atlas mountains and reaching the city
of Taroudant
Of course there
was one small problem.
The Sultan had
forbidden outsiders, especially Christians, from going there.
Don Roberto
flouted the danger, saddled his Barb horse and galloped straight into the
teeth of one of the greatest desert stories ever told. Disguised in local
clothes and calling himself “Sheikh Mohammad El Fasi,” the Scottish author
posing as a Turkish doctor was only hours away from the elusive city when he
was captured and kidnapped.
This book, an
instant best-seller, brought praises from Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells and
Bernard Shaw, who all agreed it was a rare book written by a man so
kaleidoscopic in character that he defied belief.
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ISBN 159048178X |
Rodeo, Robert Cunninghame Graham - “Rodeo” is an
omnibus of the finest work of the man they called “the uncrowned King of
Scotland.” The stories canter across a wide vista, ranging from the rolling
pampas of Argentina to the cruel cities of Europe. They are inhabited by the
characters whom Don Roberto knew, ranging from mysterious Moroccan sherifs
to dying Sioux chiefs.
As if to add a
hint of equestrian history, “Rodeo” was edited by Aimé Tschiffely, the most
famous Long Rider of the 20th century and a close personal friend
of Don Roberto’s.
H.G. Wells,
Joseph Conrad, Teddy Roosevelt, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, all
praised Don Roberto as being one of the greatest writers of their day.
An enduring literary monument to
a life well lived, “Rodeo” remains a classic literary treasure. Visit
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ISBN 1590481763 |
Tales of Horsemen, Robert Cunninghame Graham - Here is a book of
horse stories to discover, buy and cherish. For these tales were penned by
the great “Don Roberto” Cunninghame Graham and they are not to be picked up
and looked at lightly. For equestrian treasures such as these are rare
indeed.
Don Roberto was
always a horseman !
He stepped into
the saddle as a small child and was riding until he died in 1936.
“Tales of
Horsemen” contains ten of the most beautifully written equestrian stories
ever set to paper, collected during the roaming life of this talented
horse-borne scribe.
The stories
gallop across the whole wide world, taking the reader on a ride from the hot
pampas of Argentina to the cold reaches of Iceland. The book culminates with
Don Roberto’s most famous equestrian tale, “Tschiffely’s Ride.” This account
of the Swiss Long Rider, and his Criollo horses Mancha and Gato, helped
inspire the birth of modern equestrian travel and earned Don Roberto a place
in the Valhalla of Long Rider heroes.
So saddle up and ride along
through the pages of this lovely book, edited and illustrated by Alexander
Maitland, and carrying a special Foreword by Don Roberto’s great-niece, Jean
Cunninghame Graham.
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Vanished
Arcadia
ISBN 1590481801 |
Here is a tale of
remarkable drama and supreme sacrifice, a story discovered by one of the
world’s greatest writers deep in the jungles of South America.
Cunninghame
Graham, a lifelong champion of the down-trodden, dedicated his literary
genius to telling the forgotten story of the Guarani natives, a people
converted to Christianity and then betrayed into slavery.
By the mid-1700s
European Jesuit priests had converted an estimated one hundred thousand
Guarani natives and used their labour to organize a vast theological empire
within the borders of Portuguese Brazil. These immense Jesuit-controlled
estates raised enormous herds of animals and produced valuable crops which
were exported back to Europe, while maintaining schools and churches which
taught arts and theology to the natives. After nearly two hundred years of
mutual effort, the Guarani and Jesuits had achieved what was described as a
‘golden era’ of peace and progress.
Yet this same
wealth, brought about by peaceful means, inspired the envy and resentment of
the secular Europeans living in the surrounding countryside. In what would
today be described as an act of ethnic cleansing, the Guarani natives were
attacked by Spanish and Portuguese troops. Thousands of natives were
enslaved, the missions destroyed and the Jesuits driven out.
This is the profound story of
those innocents massacred in the name of political domination, written by a
master-story teller, which inspired the movie “The Mission.”
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