International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds

by Bonnie L. Hendricks and Hendricks

Book Overview

A standard reference on horse breeds-illustrated and updated

Celebrating the animal that has been a stalwart servant to humankind for countless generations, Bonnie Hendricks's International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds is the most thorough compilation of horse breeds ever attempted. The nearly four hundred entries, arranged alphabetically, include foundation breeds now extinct as well as extant breeds from across the globe. Each entry details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080613884X
• ISBN13: 9780806138848
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The best, most complete horse breeds book I have ever seen!

Bonnie Hendricks has gone far beyond what any other horse breed researcher has done...she has contacted every breed association she possibly could. She has written with far more detail, greater accuracy, and on many more breeds than any other horse book I have seen. Her intelligent ideas inserted into some breed descriptions are well worth noting. This is a MUST-HAVE for the serious equine enthusiast! It has definitely spoiled my appetite for any other horse book that attempts to describe the breeds. Thanks Bonnie, we needed this book!

A must read for any horse breeder

Intresting and somewhat overwhelming a great insite into the world of horses.

The most comprehensive, interesting guide book around!

This is the best book in my equine library. It it the only book I have found which contains good information about little known breeds, such as the Asturian, Lewitzer, Pinzgauer, and Moyle Horse. Each desciption is well-researched and contains a great deal of information about that breed's origin, conformation, population, and common usage. If you show model horses, it is an invaluable guide for breed assignment; how else would you know that your San Domingo makes a perfect Wielkopolski, or that your standing Thoroughbred Mare is an ideal Cirit horse? The only thing that would make this book better would be color photos, but that would most likely make it prohibitively expensive.

Wow, what a book!

This book has it all...from the common breeds to the extremely rare. Absolutely a must for those that love to research breed origins or just love all breeds of horses. There are many nice photographs in both color and b & w to enjoy. I love this book!

The most difinitive work for tracking the breed's.....

This book is a must for anyone who is interested in the origin and development of horse breed's throught the world. It allows a serious rider the chance to find an animal that has qualities that one is looking for specifically and where they are located...Well, worth the investment as it answers some very difficult questions that used to end in the answer 'I don't know!'....