I’ve been shoveling manure and hollering "Whoa" for as long as I can remember. I have owned, cared for and trained countless horses and ponies over the years. After living with them, studying them and publishing numerous stories about them, I thought I knew just about all there was to know about horses. Recently, however, I realized that wasn’t quite true.
I had decided to write a story about the ponies used by Sir Ernest Shackleton in his quest to reach the South Pole some 116 years ago.