Horses is an A-Z companion to perhaps the most loved of all domesticated animals. The book's entries include a wealth of unexpected,fascinating and serendipitous information,from horse-slang phrases to horses in British pub signs,and from the horse in advertising to the horse as a food item. Themes such as the horse in warfare and the horse in folklore abound.These features add up to a richly satisfying accumulation of information about the horse's role in human culture and society over two millennia. Horses will not only be a helpful reference source and congenial bedside book for those who work with or enjoy horses,but also a satisfying and browsable companion for the inquisitive general reader.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9780304365395Number of pages: 256Weight: 380 gDimensions: 218 x 140 x 28 mm
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Many books have been written about famous horses but none like this; a well-informed,enthusiastic,engagingly written and unusually wide-ranging work. It was written to celebrate horses famous for whatever reason and it succeeds wonderfully well
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