Carol A. Butler, Les Sellnow

Knowing Horses (eBook, ePUB)

Q&As to Boost Your Equine IQ

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Even if you've loved horses all your life, you'll discover something new in this encyclopedic compendium of all things equine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781603429115
• Artikelnr.: 37942424

Autorenporträt

Carol A. Butler is co-author of a series of natural history Q&A books with Rutgers University Press, a psychoanalyst, and a docent at the American Museum of Natural History. She lives in New York, New York.

Les Sellnow is a lifelong horseman, competitor, and journalist, as well as the author of eight horse books and hundreds of magazine articles. He writes regularly for The Horse and The Blood-Horse magazines. He lives in Riverton, Wyoming.

Inhaltsangabe

1  Horse 101: A Few Equine Essentials
2  Hooves, Hearing, and Hiccups: Some Physical Facts
3  Horsing Around: Exploring Equine Behavior
4  Breeds: How to Tell a Saddlebred from a Standardbred
5  Training Horses: If You Whisper, They Will Listen
6  Horse Racing: The Sport of Kings and Commoners
7  Piaffes, Pulling, and Polo: More Equestrian Sports
8  Wild Horses: Mustangs, Brumbies, and How to Pronounce "Przewalski"
9  The Historical Horse: Horses and Humans Go Way Back
Appendix: More Stuff About Horses
Index