Author: Primrose Cumming
Publisher: Fidra Books Limited
ISBN: 9781906123079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Silver Snaffles' is the magical story of Jenny, who longs to learn to ride and has her chance when she follows the instructions of Tattles, the pony that she visits every day. After uttering the password, Jenny finds herself in a parallel world where ponies can speak.
Silver Snaffles
Author: Primrose Cumming
Publisher: Fidra Books Limited
ISBN: 9781906123079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Silver Snaffles' is the magical story of Jenny, who longs to learn to ride and has her chance when she follows the instructions of Tattles, the pony that she visits every day. After uttering the password, Jenny finds herself in a parallel world where ponies can speak.
Publisher: Fidra Books Limited
ISBN: 9781906123079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Silver Snaffles' is the magical story of Jenny, who longs to learn to ride and has her chance when she follows the instructions of Tattles, the pony that she visits every day. After uttering the password, Jenny finds herself in a parallel world where ponies can speak.
Nature Writing
Author: Robert Finch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393049664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
The first anthology to represent the full range of nature writing's rich and flourishing tradition, from lyrical essays to thoughtful encounters with new ethical and ecological concerns.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393049664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
The first anthology to represent the full range of nature writing's rich and flourishing tradition, from lyrical essays to thoughtful encounters with new ethical and ecological concerns.
The Gigantic Book of Horse Wisdom
Author: Thomas Meagher
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 9781602390966
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Can you recall the first time you rode a horse or galloped down an empty beach? The first time you heard the knowing “neigh” as the saddle shifted on the proud stallion’s back? Bring back those wonderful memories with this enormous 800-page anthology. Featuring personal insights from some of the world’s foremost equestrian writers, including Anna Sewell, Nicholas Evans, Cormac McCarthy, and others, it will surely pull the heartstrings of serious jockeys and casual riders alike. Traveling from the open plains to the cattle ranches of the beauteous Midwest, from the quiet seclusion of small town America to the clamor of New York, this special volume reminds us of all the little bits of wisdom we can learn from our equestrian friends. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 9781602390966
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Can you recall the first time you rode a horse or galloped down an empty beach? The first time you heard the knowing “neigh” as the saddle shifted on the proud stallion’s back? Bring back those wonderful memories with this enormous 800-page anthology. Featuring personal insights from some of the world’s foremost equestrian writers, including Anna Sewell, Nicholas Evans, Cormac McCarthy, and others, it will surely pull the heartstrings of serious jockeys and casual riders alike. Traveling from the open plains to the cattle ranches of the beauteous Midwest, from the quiet seclusion of small town America to the clamor of New York, this special volume reminds us of all the little bits of wisdom we can learn from our equestrian friends. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Snaffles
Author: Carolyn Henderson
Publisher: Interpet
ISBN: 9781900667203
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
After explaining the principles of mouth conformation and bit fitting, this text discusses types of mouthpieces and bit rings and provides an analysis of the various snaffle actions. The book includes chapters on bitting youngsters, the influence of nosebands and aids on bit action, and solving specific schooling problems.
Publisher: Interpet
ISBN: 9781900667203
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
After explaining the principles of mouth conformation and bit fitting, this text discusses types of mouthpieces and bit rings and provides an analysis of the various snaffle actions. The book includes chapters on bitting youngsters, the influence of nosebands and aids on bit action, and solving specific schooling problems.
The Roots of Things
Author: Maxine Kumin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126486
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Throughout her career, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin has been at the vanguard of discussions about feminism and sexism, the state of poetry, and our place in the natural world. The Roots of Things gathers into one volume her best essays on the issues that have been closest to her throughout her storied career. Divided into sections on "Taking Root," "Poets and Poetry," and "Country Living," these pieces reveal Kumin honing her views within a variety of forms, including speeches, critical essays, and introductions of other writers’ work. Whether she is recollecting scenes from her childhood, ruminating on the ups and downs of what she calls "pobiz" (for "poetry business"), describing the battles she’s fought on behalf of women, or illuminating the lives of animals, Kumin offers insight that can only be born of long and closely observed experience.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126486
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Throughout her career, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin has been at the vanguard of discussions about feminism and sexism, the state of poetry, and our place in the natural world. The Roots of Things gathers into one volume her best essays on the issues that have been closest to her throughout her storied career. Divided into sections on "Taking Root," "Poets and Poetry," and "Country Living," these pieces reveal Kumin honing her views within a variety of forms, including speeches, critical essays, and introductions of other writers’ work. Whether she is recollecting scenes from her childhood, ruminating on the ups and downs of what she calls "pobiz" (for "poetry business"), describing the battles she’s fought on behalf of women, or illuminating the lives of animals, Kumin offers insight that can only be born of long and closely observed experience.
Linked
Author: Anne Carr
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460268377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The impetus for writing this book started with the death of my mother and the need to retain all the stories she had told me over the years. It follows the branches of two families, including a sausage manufacturer in the industrial north of England and a haberdasher in the heart of London in the south. It also contains personal experiences of post-war Britain and beyond, and the eventual union of the families in mid-20th century Canada.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460268377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The impetus for writing this book started with the death of my mother and the need to retain all the stories she had told me over the years. It follows the branches of two families, including a sausage manufacturer in the industrial north of England and a haberdasher in the heart of London in the south. It also contains personal experiences of post-war Britain and beyond, and the eventual union of the families in mid-20th century Canada.
If Wishes Were Horses
Author: Susanna Forrest
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857897136
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich, and like many a girl, she yearned for a pony. She was never to get one, but this didn't stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes Were Horses is the story of that all-consuming interest, and of the author's nerve-wracked attempts later in life to ride once again. However, as Susanna Forrest's journey unfolds, it leads her to horse-obsessed princesses, recovering crack addicts, courtesans, warriors, pink-obsessed schoolgirls, national heroines, and runaways across the ages. From girl-riders of the Bronze Age, to lavishly adorned equestrian Victorians and 21st-century children on horseback in Brixton, she explores the development of this Pony Cult from its earliest times to the present day. In doing so, she takes to the saddle once more and rediscovers her own riding legs in this frank, eclectic, and captivating memoir of an ever-changing equine world.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857897136
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich, and like many a girl, she yearned for a pony. She was never to get one, but this didn't stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes Were Horses is the story of that all-consuming interest, and of the author's nerve-wracked attempts later in life to ride once again. However, as Susanna Forrest's journey unfolds, it leads her to horse-obsessed princesses, recovering crack addicts, courtesans, warriors, pink-obsessed schoolgirls, national heroines, and runaways across the ages. From girl-riders of the Bronze Age, to lavishly adorned equestrian Victorians and 21st-century children on horseback in Brixton, she explores the development of this Pony Cult from its earliest times to the present day. In doing so, she takes to the saddle once more and rediscovers her own riding legs in this frank, eclectic, and captivating memoir of an ever-changing equine world.
Necessary Trouble
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 037460181X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions—not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted” and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Drew forged a path of her own—one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. Includes black-and-white images
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 037460181X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions—not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted” and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Drew forged a path of her own—one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. Includes black-and-white images
All Girls Love Horses
Author: Pamela Paige
Publisher: A Look-See Book
ISBN: 1517479932
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"Oh my, oh my, how I love horses. And this beautiful photo book delivers horses in all their handsome, muscle-rippling, sweaty, and amazing glory. I've thumbed through it so often I may have to buy an untattered copy for my coffee table." —Martha Griswold, Online Critics Corner "Horses used to be considered tools for cowboys, a means of transportation for soldiers, and a matter of business for racehorse owners. Today, horses are mostly companion animals kept for pleasure rather than work or business purposes." —Caterina Tadlock, champion barrel racer "Being a horse person means a girl can be tough, get dirty, commune with animals and generally experience a kind of rugged fun you just can't get from Barbie's Dream House ... as I like to tell people, it's like having a giant pet vegetarian motorcycle." —Eva Sandor, Illustrator, writer, horse nut A perfect gift for your girlfriends ... or you! It's a truism that girls have a special spot in their hearts for horses. This book explores that truism, and delivers more than 100 outstanding photographs of that wondrous duo, girls and their favorite steads. The photos are accompanied by significant quotes by luminaries ranging from Diane Lane to Jane Smiley, Kate Upton to Anna Sewell — plus numerous popular sayings, aphorisms, legends, and pithy observations by horse lovers. You'll undoubtedly love this collection of lovely full-color photographs almost as much as girls love horses!
Publisher: A Look-See Book
ISBN: 1517479932
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"Oh my, oh my, how I love horses. And this beautiful photo book delivers horses in all their handsome, muscle-rippling, sweaty, and amazing glory. I've thumbed through it so often I may have to buy an untattered copy for my coffee table." —Martha Griswold, Online Critics Corner "Horses used to be considered tools for cowboys, a means of transportation for soldiers, and a matter of business for racehorse owners. Today, horses are mostly companion animals kept for pleasure rather than work or business purposes." —Caterina Tadlock, champion barrel racer "Being a horse person means a girl can be tough, get dirty, commune with animals and generally experience a kind of rugged fun you just can't get from Barbie's Dream House ... as I like to tell people, it's like having a giant pet vegetarian motorcycle." —Eva Sandor, Illustrator, writer, horse nut A perfect gift for your girlfriends ... or you! It's a truism that girls have a special spot in their hearts for horses. This book explores that truism, and delivers more than 100 outstanding photographs of that wondrous duo, girls and their favorite steads. The photos are accompanied by significant quotes by luminaries ranging from Diane Lane to Jane Smiley, Kate Upton to Anna Sewell — plus numerous popular sayings, aphorisms, legends, and pithy observations by horse lovers. You'll undoubtedly love this collection of lovely full-color photographs almost as much as girls love horses!
England, Our England
Author: Alan Titchmarsh
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848942958
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: From Austen to Wordsworth,Jerusalem to the Scout’s Honour, Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory, Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers, Tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea, Victoria sponge to fish pie and the rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848942958
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: From Austen to Wordsworth,Jerusalem to the Scout’s Honour, Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory, Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers, Tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea, Victoria sponge to fish pie and the rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas