About the Author

Bob Thompson started riding at the age of six and he rode in his first point-to-point at sixteen. He was commissioned into The Life Guards (Household Cavalry) in 1966.

He left the army to be the horse-coper for an expedition looking for the lost city of Firozkoh in central Afghanistan. While watching a game of buzkashi he was told that a banned ancient horse game was still played somewhere in eastern Turkey. That was the start of his lifelong quest to record the remaining tribal horse games around the world.

When not travelling (although he also found time to race at Cheltenham!) he and his wife Sue farm in the Welsh Borders.