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About this book
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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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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Index
Abdille, Sayid Mahammed 316–317
Académie du Spectacle Équestre 137
acceleration 119
Adagio 101
Adonis 100n
Afghanistan 347, 347–38, 352–353, 353, 354, 366
Africanus, Leo 24
aggression 318–319, 341–345
agricultural improvers 175–177
Agricultural Revolution, the 174–177
agricultural shows 165, 182–185
agriculture 174–175
airs above ground 103–104
Albert the Great 318
Albrecht, Duke 25
Alexander the Great 113, 269, 316
Alexandria 92
Alfonso V, King of Aragon 96
Allarty-Molier, Blanche 128
Allen, Anthony Benezet 167–168, 169
America, extinctions 12
American Civil War 360
American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 200
American Mammoth Donkeys 190
Amish, the 187–188, 195, 198
An Lushan 279–280
Andromède 120–121
Angelababy 305–306
Anglicus, Bartholomaeus 316
Anhalt-Köthen, dukes of 30
Animal Liberation Front 243, 244
animal power, development of 173–179
animal virtues 367
Animals’ Angels 226
appearance
dray horses 152
Takhi 70–71
wild horses 26, 29, 70–71
Argentina 216
Aristotle, Politics 313–314
Arkwright, Richard 174
Arlequ’un 101
Arlington Cemetery 349–353
Arthashastra, The (Chanakya) 113–115
artificial selection 50
Asanov, Ivan 32–33
Askania-Nova 21–22, 30–31, 33–34, 35–36, 51, 52, 56
Astley, Philip 121, 121–122, 123, 126...
Table of contents
- Cover
- 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