CuChullaine O'Reilly

CuChullaine O’Reilly is an investigative reporter who has documented and written about equestrian travel for more than thirty years. He devoted six years to writing “The Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration”, the most comprehensive study of horse travel ever created. After having made lengthy trips by horseback across Pakistan, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers’ Club. O’Reilly founded the Long Riders’ Guild, the world's first inter-national association of equestrian explorers. The organization has Members in more than forty countries, all of whom have made a qualifying equestrian journey of at least one thousand miles. The Guild has supported or advised more than a hundred equestrian expeditions on every continent except Antarctica.

Explorers’ Web described CuChullaine O'Reilly as “a living legend.” He is the author of “Khyber Knights”, an equestrian travel tale described as a “masterpiece” and the author as “Jack London in our time”. As Director of the Long Riders’ Guild Press, he has preserved and published hundreds of the most important equestrian travel books of all time. The author is married to the Long Rider, Basha Cornwall-Legh, who rode her Cossack stallion, Count Pompeii, from Volgograd to London, becoming the only person in the twentieth century to ride out of Russia. The O’Reillys are the webmasters of The Long Riders’ Guild website, the repository of the largest collection of equestrian travel information in human history.