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The Age of the Horse : an Equine Journey Through Human History.
A "superb" account of the enduring connection between humans and horses'"Full of the sort of details that get edited out of more traditional histories" (The Economist). Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth'and beginning with the first-known h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Newburyport :
Grove Atlantic,
2017.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; Evolution -- An Onion Can Turn into a Lily; Domestication -- A Tooth, a Grave and Mare's Milk; Wildness -- A Swift and Savage Breed; Culture -- Horses Strangely Wise; Power -- Hay is Biofuel; Meat -- Americans Don't Eat Horses; Wealth -- Knight Dreams and Heavenly Horses; War -- Are Horses Warriors?; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index; A Note about the Author; Back Cover | |
| 520 | |a A "superb" account of the enduring connection between humans and horses'"Full of the sort of details that get edited out of more traditional histories" (The Economist). Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth'and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. It has sustained us as a source of food, an industrial and agricultural machine, a comrade in arms, a symbol of wealth, power, and the wild. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdote, equestrian expert Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as literature and art to illustrate how our evolution has coincided with that of horses. In paintings and poems (such as Byron's famous "Mazeppa"), in theater and classical music (including works by Liszt and Tchaikovsky), representations of the horse have changed over centuries, portraying the crucial impact that we've had on each other. Forrest combines this history with her own experience in the field, and travels the world to offer a comprehensive look at the horse in our lives today: from Mongolia where she observes the endangered takhi, to a show-horse performance at the Palace of Versailles; from a polo club in Beijing to Arlington, Virginia, where veterans with PTSD are rehabilitated through interaction with horses. "For the horse-addicted, a book can get no better than this ... original, cerebral and from the heart." 'The Times (London). | ||
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