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bookshops around the globe.
“You find the most interesting books in the most unlikely spots,” she said, from the attic at a country estate to the basement storage unit of an intown commercial shop. “I find the neatest books at English ‘carboots,’ that’s their version of a flea market. Yard sales, estate sales, all sorts of places. I’ve got a lot of eyes, a good network around the world, looking out for me.”
An avid rider since her youth, Wild still has a soft spot for the children’s horse books of her childhood. Her mother, one of the earliest supporters of her riding, helps Wild with packing and shipping orders from their November Farm.
,“I started riding when I was 7,” Wild recalled, noting that, although neither of her parents rode horses, everything equine attracted her from the start. “I got my first pony at age 9, and worked my way through hunter bams and show stables to get to compete and ride.”
Wild showed equitation and junior hunters, in addition to hunting with foxhunt clubs near her Massachusetts home. But she had not ridden for years since relocating to Virginia with her mom, a retired nurse, in 1992.
“Sure, I missed it,” Wild said. “But life got in the way.” She took riding back up this summer, and now hunts regularly with several local packs.
Though Wild is cautious about “selling” in the hunt field, it is her connections there that yield her most interesting offerings. “I met a man this spring at a hunt meet who wanted me to be his exclusive U.S. distributor of an Irish hunting book,” Wild said. “I thought, 'Oh, sure,’ and gave him my card Well, six months later, he calls me and now I’m
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