Author: Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554517022
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Powerful, spirited, and beautiful, horses have literally changed the world. -- Read about Bucephalus, the valiant horse that led Alexander the Great fearlessly into battle; the mighty Mustangs used by the Native peoples to hunt buffalo; the hard-working pit ponies that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution, and Sybil Ludington's horse, Star, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War. Horses hold a natural fascination for many young people. What better way to introduce them to world history than through the stories of these magnificent animals.
Galloping Through History
Author: Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554517022
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Powerful, spirited, and beautiful, horses have literally changed the world. -- Read about Bucephalus, the valiant horse that led Alexander the Great fearlessly into battle; the mighty Mustangs used by the Native peoples to hunt buffalo; the hard-working pit ponies that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution, and Sybil Ludington's horse, Star, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War. Horses hold a natural fascination for many young people. What better way to introduce them to world history than through the stories of these magnificent animals.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554517022
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Powerful, spirited, and beautiful, horses have literally changed the world. -- Read about Bucephalus, the valiant horse that led Alexander the Great fearlessly into battle; the mighty Mustangs used by the Native peoples to hunt buffalo; the hard-working pit ponies that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution, and Sybil Ludington's horse, Star, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War. Horses hold a natural fascination for many young people. What better way to introduce them to world history than through the stories of these magnificent animals.
Wild Horses
Author: Kelly Milner Halls
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1581960654
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Wild horses from all over the world are presented along with a close look at prehistoric horse-like animals and some famous horses and breeds from history and mythology.
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1581960654
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Wild horses from all over the world are presented along with a close look at prehistoric horse-like animals and some famous horses and breeds from history and mythology.
Farewell to the Horse
Author: Ulrich Raulff
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241257611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 '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.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241257611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 '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.
Galloping Thunder
Author: Robert J. Trout
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811749541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The story of this special battalion is vast and encompasses almost every campaign of the Army of Northern Virginia. From skirmishes in which a couple of rounds were fired to full-scale battles in which the guns went through hundreds of rounds, the horse artillery was engaged from the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the battle at Bentonville, North Carolina. But the history of the battalion was more than just the battles it fought. The men had their own stories to tell.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811749541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The story of this special battalion is vast and encompasses almost every campaign of the Army of Northern Virginia. From skirmishes in which a couple of rounds were fired to full-scale battles in which the guns went through hundreds of rounds, the horse artillery was engaged from the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the battle at Bentonville, North Carolina. But the history of the battalion was more than just the battles it fought. The men had their own stories to tell.
Buffon's Natural History of Man, the Globe and of Quadrupeds
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Galloping Horses
Author: Fangfang Xu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997057416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The author recalls growing up in Mao's China as the daughter of pioneering artist Xu Beihong, describing how her family and her father's legacy survived the turbulence of Mao's ever-changing policies, which dictated the direction of art and music from 1949 to 1976.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997057416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The author recalls growing up in Mao's China as the daughter of pioneering artist Xu Beihong, describing how her family and her father's legacy survived the turbulence of Mao's ever-changing policies, which dictated the direction of art and music from 1949 to 1976.
Encyclopaedia Americana
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The History of the Battles and Adventures of the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, & C. in Southern Africa
Author: Duncan Campbell Francis Moodie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Journal of American History
Author: Francis Trevelyan Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Natural History of Man
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description