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Horses of Long Ago
Dahlov Ipcar
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Description for Horses of Long Ago
Hardback. In Horses of Long Ago, Ms. Ipcar takes us on a journey through history, illustrating how horses have been valued and used by people from ancient Mesopotamia to Industrial Europe. She brings us up through the centuries to show us how horses have changed, and how they've changed the course of humanity. Num Pages: 64 pages, 62 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: YNNF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 284 x 227 x 12. Weight in Grams: 608.
From the first gawky little eohippus of 50 million years ago to his thoroughbred descendants of today, here is a book about all kinds of horses—whether thundering into battle beneath an armor clad knight, prancing before carriages, plodding around cornfields pulling plows, or racing for kings, they spring to life on every page. This is also a picturesque and unique glimpse into history, for horses have been valued and used by men as far apart in space as the Samurai of Japan to the farmers of France, as distant in time as ancient Egyptian charioteers and American cowboys. ... Read more
From the first gawky little eohippus of 50 million years ago to his thoroughbred descendants of today, here is a book about all kinds of horses—whether thundering into battle beneath an armor clad knight, prancing before carriages, plodding around cornfields pulling plows, or racing for kings, they spring to life on every page. This is also a picturesque and unique glimpse into history, for horses have been valued and used by men as far apart in space as the Samurai of Japan to the farmers of France, as distant in time as ancient Egyptian charioteers and American cowboys. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781608933235
SKU
V9781608933235
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Dahlov Ipcar
In a career spanning more than half a century, beloved Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s and young adult books including Brown Cow Farm, World Full of Horses and Lobsterman. She has exhibited her art in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and has completed ten large-scale murals for public buildings.
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