Medieval type fantasy fiction novels are filled with men riding off on horseback and motley gangs of wizards, thieves, and rangers traveling from town to town. These travel scenes can be interesting, but they can also smack a reader out of belief so fast it will make their head spin. Example: Blurg city lay two hundred miles west of Crit. Rogar the Brave and his fearless horde of skeletal warriors jumped on their horses and rode hard. They arrived just after dark on the second day. What? Two hundred miles in two days on horseback? Sounds more like Rogar the jet-propelled. Writing realistic travel in fantasy fiction novels is important if you want your story to be believed. The last thing you want your reader to say is "You've got to be kidding …show more content…
All these things will effect how the horse can travel. Horse Travel in Fantasy Fiction - Gaits A horse has four main gates, or modes of travel: walk, trot, canter, and gallop. Walking is the main form of travel over long distances for the untrained horse. Horses must walk when carrying heavy loads or pulling carriages or wagons. The trot is the equivalent to a human jog. There is a lot of up and down movement that will be uncomfortable for the rider over distances. A canter is a faster gait. In fantasy fiction, your horses will do a lot of traveling at a canter. This is a more comfortable gait than the trot since the rider can stay in the saddle. However, to keep the realism, your fantasy fiction horse cannot canter all day long. The gallop is the fastest horse gait. This should be reserved for quick chases and flights from the encroaching hordes. No horse will travel at a gallop. Horse Travel in Fantasy Fiction - Distances There is a large discrepancy on how far a horse can travel in one day. This depends on the type of horse, what it is carrying, and how it is cared for. Your average, well kept, riding horse can travel twenty to thirty miles per day. Horses trained and conditioned for long distances can travel up to fifty or sixty …show more content…
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In His short story "A White Horse", author Thom Jones introduces his main characters, Ad Magic's, hunger for mad adventure. This peripatetic-"American Dream" looking character who appears in a few of Thom Jone's short stories seems like the perfect traveling companion. After "abandoning his seizure meds" in Los Angeles, he suddenly finds himself lost in Bombay,-trying to remember who, where and how?- on a bus loaded with tourists,where he almost died during the car accident,but ironical not from the impact of a matter, but of suffocation. This spontaneous, out-of-control odyssey leads Ad to a filthy beach where he comes to the aid of a diseased and dying horse. A good man with a kind heart--not to mention the best name ever created for someone who works in advertising.
The knights’ way of transportation connects to how today we have tanks and other military transportation. Horses are the most commonly used animal as a means of transportation. They were extremely important for battle grounds. Horses give people an advantage of speed and height. “No other animal has been employed so widely and continuously and was at times so comprehensively protected as the horse,” says the Met Museum.
The western horse is known to be slow, with some speed, to round up cattle without spooking them. An english horse is known for long legs with big strides. English horses have to be able to run long distances switching speeds, and jumping over anything in the way. If you are riding a Western or English horse at a walk or trot, there's not much of a difference. Except on an english horse you must post with your thighs to help your horse stride out, but sometimes a judge will require you to sit a trot.
Stories with a hero’s journey can serve as an escape from everyday life, which is why these kind of stories are so popular and why they resonate so deeply with readers. In everyday life, people develop routines. The reason readers like these kinds of stories is the same reason why most people go on vacation: to destress, explore, and take a break from these mundane routines. The same goes for books with tales of fantastical lands and mystery. The opportunity to experience a whole new fantasy world with every book is an adventure in itself. Not only do the magical worlds add to the
The Hero’s Journey is a pattern or type of novel that applies to many adventure stories.
These timeless tales relate a message that readers throughout the ages can understand and relate to. While each of these tales is not exactly alike, they do share a common core of events. Some event and or character flaw necessitates a journey of some kind, whether it is an actual physical journey or a metaphorical one. The hardships and obstacles encountered on said journey lead to spiritual growth and build character. Rarely does a person find himself unchanged once the journey is over.
The equus horse’s original habitat was in North America about 4 million years ago where they crossed the Bering land bridge to Eurasia 2 or 3 million years ago (Jay F. Kirkpatrick). They were then brought back to their homeland years later by the Europeans. Christopher Columbus was one of the first recorded people from the Old World that brought horses along with him on his voyage. His voyage was originally to India, but he infamously found his way to the New World. However, Christopher Columbus’ voyage was not where the official exchange of the horse took place. Hernán Cortez provided the horses more exposure to the Aztecs in 1519. The Old World’s main form of transportation was the horse. During the 1450’s to 1750’s there was no such thing as a car, train or bus. Great distances could not be traveled due to a lack of transportation in South America. Society was blocked off because the landscape was difficult to travel by foot. Horses were a quick, efficient form of transportation that enabled the Native Americans to cover greater distances as well as terrains that could not...
Hippotherapy, a specialized form of equine therapy, “is a physical, occupational or speech and language therapy treatment strategy that utilizes equine movement. Hippotherapy literally means ‘treatment with the help of the horse’ from the Greek word, "hippos" meaning horse” (“Hippotherapy.”). Equine therapy is an all-encompassing type of therapy that includes riding horses, learning about the horse as a creature, the physical activity involved in horseback riding, and much more. Hippotherapy also requires a licensed, specially-trained therapist to teach and oversee lessons because of the hands-on nature of this method while therapeutic riding only requires a professional horseback-riding instructor, typically with some background in physical or occupational therapy Hippotherapy riders usually have more severe deficits and, therefore, hippotherapy is a little bit more intense than physical therapy. Both hippotherapy and therapeutic riding can utilize the unique movement of a horse to “assist in meeting therapy goals.” The horse’s gait mimics that of a human, and for that reason, horses can aid in the treatment of patients with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy and the rehabilitation of injured people such as
To ensure the fast pace delivery of the mail, the Pony Express purchased 600 broncos, mostly thorough breads, mustangs, and morgans. Still the horses weren’t all needed. They also had to find men who would be able to handle the adverse weather conditions, Indians and be able to ride for 75 miles with out stopping. The riders were generally under 20 years of age and weighed no more than 120 pounds. They had to be excellent horsemen and have experience with guns. The Pony Express was a relay of mail running day and night.
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Second you should practice leading and lunging your horse. Leading your horse is just like taking your dog for a walk but when you lead your horse you want them by your side, you don?t want them too far in front of you or too far behind you. When you lead your horse you should have a halter and a rope. Your rope should be long enough for you to lunge your horse, which is about fifteen feet. When you are leading your horse you should never let the hors...
As the ancient civilizations of the west grew their empires, they encountered something so powerful, beastly, and strong that no man could hold down with his own two bare hands, nor could they be tamed. As centuries go on, men learned the ways of the horse and learned to ride upon their backs. They found them to be a key component in transportation, carrying goods, and warfare. As time went on, for every footprint of a human left behind in the wet mud, there was a hoof print not far from the footprint. Ancient Greeks believed that the horse was a gift from the gods, and they were greatly valued in their society.
Throughout history, fairy tales, and adventures, people or creatures have gone through journeys to reach their goal or destination. Interestingly, on their campaign to get to their destination, their adventure became more important. The journey matters more than the destination because the characters’ choices provide valuable life lessons that they would not have gained had they not experienced the journey.
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is a novel that takes place in the late nineteenth century. The title summarizes the plot because one day Phileas Fogg is with some friends and he reads in a newspaper that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. But no one believes this to be true except Phileas. Then Phileas bets them that he could make the journey in eighty or under days, and then leaves along with his servant immediately. Throughout the journey Phileas and his servant Passepartout use every means of transportation possible such as steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, and even an elephant.
Many of the classical travel narratives of the past are presented with a main character, with the story revolving around their journey and experience in foreign places. Examples of the traditional way of travel writing are classics like Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby, which is about the writers’ journey to Italy and how he met different people, including his wife, throughout the trip (Dalrymple & Theroux, 2011). There are also recent books like Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert which talks about a middle-aged woman’s travel experience as well as her self-discovery during her trip to India. It is a traditional way of travel writing to be a personal narrative and focus on a hero or heroine. In this essay, I will talk about a piece of writing conforming to this idea and another that does not, they are, namely Triumph on Mount Everest by Stacy Allison and Why We Travel by Pico Lyer.