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PUBLICATIONS Books on Explorers and Exploration Explorers Club Imprint Order online from Barnes & Noble! The Moonshine Mule: A 2,700-Mile Walk from Mexico to Manhattan By Tom Fremantle Explorers Club Imprint The Lyons Press ISBN 1592287166 Publisher's Description In the summer of 1863 Colonel Arthur Fremantle traveled through America at the height of the Civil War. Almost 140 years later, Tom Fremantle set off on the same journey. While Colonel Arthur rode on stagecoaches, steam trains, and Mississippi river skiffs, his less sensible descendant slogged the entire way on foot. Colonel Arthur flirted with saucy belles, Tom Fremantle kept company with a cantankerous eleven-year-old mule called Browny. Colonel Arthur set out at a time when America was ripping itself apart, while Tom Fremantle—who started his walk ten days before the September 11 attacks on New York—witnessed a country never more united. While on his journey Fremantle visits the last battlefield of the Civil War with a baby-faced Brownsville journalist, enjoys the Day of the Dead in Progresso, sleeps in a church, and buys a beer from Jerry Lee Lewis’s sister. This is a story that will make you look at America, mules, and the human spirit in a whole new light. It is about two men, two contrasting worlds, and a cynical but heroic beast of burden. TOM FREMANTLE's restless career has included time as a teacher, journalist, dustman, bartender in a Hong Kong nightclub, and jackaroo on an Australian sheep station. He is also the author of Johnny Ginger’s Last Ride. He is a member of The Explorers Club. RETURN TO IMPRINT

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