Author: Alice Marriott
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Hell on Horses & Women
Author: Alice Marriott
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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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.
Hell on Horses and Women
Author: Alice Marriott
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Category : Ranch life
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Ranch life
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History
Author: Ulrich Raulff
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631494333
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus. Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the twentieth century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from human history. In this esoteric and rich tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly examining how they’ve been muses and brothers in arms, neglected and sacrificed in war yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels—and ultimately marginalized on racetracks and in pony clubs. Elegiac and absorbing, Farewell to the Horse paints a stunning panorama of a world shaped by hooves, and the imprint left on humankind. “A beautiful and thoughtful exploration. . . . Farewell to the Horse is a grown-up, but also lyrical and creative, history book, and I very much enjoyed it.”— James Rebanks, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shepherd’s Life
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631494333
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus. Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the twentieth century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from human history. In this esoteric and rich tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly examining how they’ve been muses and brothers in arms, neglected and sacrificed in war yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels—and ultimately marginalized on racetracks and in pony clubs. Elegiac and absorbing, Farewell to the Horse paints a stunning panorama of a world shaped by hooves, and the imprint left on humankind. “A beautiful and thoughtful exploration. . . . Farewell to the Horse is a grown-up, but also lyrical and creative, history book, and I very much enjoyed it.”— James Rebanks, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shepherd’s Life
The Anatomy of melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions
Author: Robert Burton
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Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up
Author: Robert Burton
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Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Burton
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
Author: Sara R. Massey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585445431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585445431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.
The anatomy of melancholy ... A new edition, corrected and enriched by translations of the numerous classical extracts by Democritus Minor
Author: Robert BURTON (Author of “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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