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by Bonnie U. Gruenberg (Photographer), Bonnie U. Gruenberg (Author)
Meet the last descendants of a historic Outer Banks herd, now corralled by the roadside. Take a boat ride to a remote island where wild horses have lived for hundreds of years. Hike among wild horses in a dense sub-tropical wilderness.
Although their numbers in the United States have declined alarmingly, wild horses may still be closer than you think. Historic herds survive on several Atlantic coast barrier islands within a day's drive of roughly half the U.S. population. These islands offer exceptional opportunities for observing natural horse behavior in beautiful settings. They're also popular vacation spots that offer a wide variety of other activities.
Wild Horse Vacations: Your Guide to the Atlantic Wild Horse Trail Volumes 1 and 2, by award-winning writer-illustrator Bonnie Gruenberg blazes the trail to adventure. Volume 1 covers the herds of Assateague Island, straddling the Virginia-Maryland border, and Corolla, on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Volume 2 covers Ocracoke and Shackleford Banks, N.C., and Cumberland Island, Ga.
Both volumes are packed with tips about horse watching and the latest information about lodging, dining, nearby attractions, and rainy-day recreation. They also provide interesting facts about each locale and suggestions for rewarding side trips, all leavened with the author's deep insight and wry humor. Volume 1 and 2 are sold separately. Wild-horse watching is addictive, however, and you'll kick yourself if you don't get the pair.
The Atlantic Wild Horse Trail, the author's own creation, is a horse-watcher's avenue to a lifetime of enjoyment and learning. This virtual route encompasses six states and more than 1,700 miles of highways, bridges, and ferry routes linking all seven wild herds and several other important horse populations into a network of getaway destinations for horse lovers, photographers, hikers, paddlers, campers, and nature enthusiasts. There are no markers to miss or signs to follow, so let the Wild Horse Vacations guides lead the way.
Author Biography
Bonnie Gruenberg, MSN, CRNP, is a midwife and nurse practitioner working in rural Pennsylvania. For more than 20 years, she has studied, photographed, painted, and written about the controversial wild herds of the Atlantic coast. Her seminal work, The Wild Horse Dilemma (2015) Dilemma won the Eric Hoffer, Next Generation Indie, and Independent Publisher book awards, and won second prize for best nonfiction book in the American Horse Publications 2016 Equine Media Awards. Reviewers have praised it as "the best work ever written about East Coast wild horses (or wild horses period!)" and "an in-depth read not to be missed by serious wild horse enthusiasts." She is also the author of the popular six-volume Hoofprints Guides to the Wild Horses of the Atlantic Coast, and Hoofprints in the Sand. Her award-winning Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for out-of-hospital midwives (Birth Guru/Birth Muse, 2008) has been translated into Russian and developed into a hands-on workshop (www.birthemergency.com). She also has published Essentials of Prehospital Maternity Care (Prentice Hall, 2005); Hoofprints in the Sand: Wild Horses of the Atlantic Coast (as Bonnie S. Urquhart; Eclipse, 2002), and numerous other books, e-books and articles Prior to her career in obstetrics, she worked as an urban paramedic in Connecticut. More information and an assortment of her photographs and artwork can be found at her Web sites www.BonnieGruenberg.com www.BonnieGphoto.com www.WildHorseIslands.com
