Lucian Spataro Jr.
Lucian Spataro Jr., author of the acclaimed book The Long Ride, is an environmentalist, businessman, educator, and adventurer whose accomplishments are international in scope and local as well. Dr. Spataro earned a B.S. from the University of Arizona and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from Ohio University and he has held engineering, management, and educational positions around the world. While working as the Director of the Program on Sustainable Development at the University of Arizona’s International College, he was a pioneer for sustainability in the Arizona-Sonora region and authored numerous studies and grants in this same area of research. Lucian has continued with his equestrian and environmental interests and is active in preservation projects in the McDowell Mountain Park and with the Sonoran Institute and their environmental restoration efforts in the Colorado River delta. He calls Scottsdale home, where he lives in the shadow of the McDowell Mountains with his wife Lori, daughter Lauren, and their black lab Dallas and endurance horse Masquerade. He continues to write and speak on sustain- ability to audiences from K-12 to college and to civic, business, and environmental groups as well. The Long Ride is available on Amazon.
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In an effort to raise awareness about the plight of the rainforest, author Lucian Spataro Jr. sets off on a cross-country journey by horseback. He shares his journey in his photo journal book "The Long Ride."
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Our book club reading today, The Long Ride, is the story of a team of people who in 1989 traveled coast to coast on horseback to raise awareness about the plight of the world’s rainforests—an issue that was not on the radar of most people at that time. It started in Los Angeles and ended 2963 miles away in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. A challenge of endurance, a statement of commitment to raising awareness about the plight of the Rainforest, The Long Ride tells of the extraordinary passion and perseverance of Lucian Spataro and his team, as he rode on horseback from coast to coast. In his second book about this historic cross-country journey, Spataro offers an honest, inspiring, comical and beautiful fusion between travel-log, advocacy and photo journal. Told with wit and eloquence, the story moves from the beaches and crowded streets of Los Angeles, across Death Valley and the [...]
