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Excellent, Modern horse breed book!
The Book of Horses is an excellent resource of horse breeds. The author includes many photos of modern representations of the breed. The text is brief but informative and interesting. Also included, are interesting facts relating to each breed. This feature is great. I especially enjoyed this feature relating to the many rare breed included in this book. I would recommend this book to horse lovers and people researching various horse breeds. Very nicely done! ... Read more

Book Description

People have lived in the Shetland Islands, the most remote of the British Isles, for ages thanks to the animals that shared their crofts, the moors and treeless hills, their livestock surviving on forage stunted by salt spray and weathering dark winters with 100 m.p.h. blizzards.These native beasts endure, rare breeds called Shetland Pony, Shetland Sheep, Shetland 'Coo,' Shetland Goose, Shetland Duck and more.Where else can one find so many indigenous farm animals - some endangered, some just plucked from the brink of extinction?As precious as they are unsung, they prove the value of adaptation, the miracles of evolution: A Shetland pony's hair pattern sheds rainwater from the flanks lest it soak the belly and chill it... Shetland sheep know the tides and browse the shores for seaweed at the ebb... This book celebrates Shetland's unique community. Chapters by experts describe Shetland Sheep, Cattle, Pony, Goose and more, revealing their special traits; a geneticist probes heredity; a historian plumbs the past; islanders offer their views and wisdom in this anthology of life. ... Read more

Book Description

Book Description

Book Description

Although this handsome book is intended for children ages eight and up, it can be savored by anyone who appreciates knowing how people everywhere have made horses and ponies a part of their lives.Here are some of the venues we can travel to via A World of Horses:the Pacific Northwest and rural England to see magnificent Shires put to work logging and plowing; the Kentucky Derby to watch Thoroughbreds vying for the first jewel in racings Triple Crown; Seville, Spain, to take in the fera with its lavishly costumed riders and Andalusians; the Spanish Riding School ofVienna to thrill to the performance of Lippizaners.In all, this is a book that informs and delights us on every page.Jane Kidd has ridden internationally in both show jumping and dressage.She has published many books with Howell, including the best-selling The International Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies. ... Read more

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ABSOLUTE MUST BUY!!!
If you're checking this book out, buy it now! It has lotsa info on horses, and is great for horse-crazy p-ple like me! Plentiful info, beautiful pics of the most gorgeous horses you could ever see! There are 4 chapters: workinghorses, festival horses, sporting horses,& horses in uniform. if you do get it, turn to page 73 and get treated to a pic ofa gorgeous chesnut doing the Capriole (read it for yerself to find out!) Also, for an x-tra cute one, flip to pg. 29, and see a pic of two ickle cutie pie ponies! DON'T EVEN BOTHER CONTEMPLATING, BUY IT NOW!!!! ... Read more