Synopses & Reviews
This first paperback edition of a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book is a comprehensive, illustrated compilation of essays by some of the world's foremost authorities on horses. The book examines in laymen's terms the development of the lineage of horses through the paleontological record, the domestication of horses based on the archaeological record, the history of the interplay between humans and horses, the lively history of equestrian sports, and advances in equine veterinary medicine. To put horses in a global perspective, the book also discusses the living relatives of horses. Every chapter is topped off with exquisite photographs of horses, most of them in color.
Table of Contents
The ancestry of the horse / Richard C. Hulbert, Jr. -- Horse hunters of the Ice Age / Sandra L. Olsen -- Bridling horse power : the domestication of the horse / David W. Anthony -- Horses in history / Juliet Clutton-Brock -- In the winner's circle : the history of equestrian sports / Sandra L. Olsen -- Hooves across the steppes : the Kazak life-style / Victor Shnirelman, Sandra L. Olsen, and Patricia Rice -- The proliferation of horse breeds / D. Phillip Sponenberg -- The advancement of equine medicine / Corinne Raphel Sweeney -- The living relatives of the horse / Susan L. Woodward.