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Farewell to the Horse - The Final Century of Our Relationship (Paperback)
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Farewell to the Horse - The Final Century of Our Relationship (Paperback)
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THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A beautiful and
thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our
world' James Rebanks 'Scintillating, exhilarating ... you have
never read a book like it ... a new way of considering history'
Observer The relationship between horses and humans is an ancient,
profound and complex one. For millennia horses provided the
strength and speed that humans lacked. How we travelled, farmed and
fought was dictated by the needs of this extraordinary animal. And
then, suddenly, in the 20th century the links were broken and the
millions of horses that shared our existence almost vanished, eking
out a marginal existence on race-tracks and pony clubs. Farewell to
the Horse is an engaging, brilliantly written and moving discussion
of what horses once meant to us. Cities, farmland, entire
industries were once shaped as much by the needs of horses as
humans. The intervention of horses was fundamental in countless
historical events. They were sculpted, painted, cherished, admired;
they were thrashed, abused and exposed to terrible danger. From the
Roman Empire to the Napoleonic Empire every world-conqueror needed
to be shown on a horse. Tolstoy once reckoned that he had
cumulatively spent some nine years of his life on horseback. Ulrich
Raulff's book, a bestseller in Germany, is a superb monument to the
endlessly various creature who has so often shared and shaped our
fate.
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