Wild about Horses: Our Timeless Passion for the Horse

by Lawrence Scanlan

Book Overview

The human love affair with horses is an ancient and far-reaching one. Moving effortlessly from history to literature, from science to sport, from anecdote to personal experience, Lawrence Scanlan sets out to discover the essence of our powerful, almost mystical attraction to this noble creature. Scanlan covers a wide territory: from the mythic horses of cultures long past to the real-life whisperers of today, to the timeless wild mustangs still roaming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060931140
• ISBN13: 9780060931148
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

One word - Fascinating!

I couldn't put this book down once I started reading it. Whether you are an expert horseperson or just a horse lover this book is for you! The chapters cover horses throughout history in war, sports, Hollywood, Greek mythology, and even where we get some of our common sayings (pass the buck, lucky horseshoe, getting on your high horse). I will definitely read this book more than once!

An excellent, excellent book for the horse fanatic.

I always knew that there were others of us out there...those horse crazed people who can't get enough of our equine friend. This book tries to unlock the secrets of our obession with horses through wonderful tales of people and their horses. It helps to explain why it is that we must stop our car and just look out at a pasture filled with horses silently grazing. What an excellent, excellent book. When you're, done, you'll want to read it again.

I LOVED IT!!!

This book was so good that I'm going to get it. I got from the library, read it, and this is the first non fiction book that I wasn't forcing myself to get through.Highly recomended for all horse-a-holics :)

A deeply moving account of man's inextricable link to horses

Scanlan's love of this noble beast is evident on every page. Powerfully written, this chronology of mankinds eternal facination with horses both enthralled and angered me and sometimes made me laugh out loud. Great photographs and interveiws, I loved this book. Wonderfully moving accounts' of the fastest horses on earth to the only living thing left at Custer's Last Stand. A enthralling, heart warming book: read some of these story's to your kids, you will both be richer for it.