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Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
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Description for Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion
Hardcover. An exploration of the fascination and romance of horses. The author discusses obsession with tackle and boots, the willingness to get dirty, to live with manure and hay, and to polish leather until it shines. She also discusses the horse's tragic history of domestication by humans. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WNGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144. Weight in Grams: 409. Clean copy in clean dustwrapper.
An exploration of the fascination and romance of horses. The author discusses the obsession with tackle and boots, the willingness to get dirty, to live with manure and hay, and to polish leather until it shines. She remembers the enthusiasm with which young girls read detailed treatises on equine behaviour. She recalls the burgeoning collections of combs, brushes and hats. The book is also a piece of writing about the horse and its extraordinary and tragic history of domestication by humans. For thousands of years, until the close of World War II, horses died by the million in military encounters ... Read more
An exploration of the fascination and romance of horses. The author discusses the obsession with tackle and boots, the willingness to get dirty, to live with manure and hay, and to polish leather until it shines. She remembers the enthusiasm with which young girls read detailed treatises on equine behaviour. She recalls the burgeoning collections of combs, brushes and hats. The book is also a piece of writing about the horse and its extraordinary and tragic history of domestication by humans. For thousands of years, until the close of World War II, horses died by the million in military encounters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
256
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862074224
SKU
KEX0212137
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