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A handsome new volume celebrating the history, culture and behaviour of this fine animal. Succinct entries cover all the main breeds of horse, split into ponies, light horses and heavy horses, with helpful statistics providing essential information at a glance.
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Horse is a handsome new volume celebrating the history, culture, and behaviour of this fine animal. This book offers succinct entries covering all the main breeds of horse, divided into categories of ponies, light horses, and heavy horses, with helpful statistics providing essential information at a glance.
Key selling points:
- Appealing compact gift format.
- Digestible and fascinating text for each image.
- Stunning full-page photographs.
The book features 150 illustrations, making it a visually captivating and informative resource for any horse enthusiast.
Series: Best Kept Secrets
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Horse
Horse is a handsome new volume celebrating the history, culture, and behaviour of this fine animal. This book offers succinct entries covering all the main breeds of horse, divided into categories of ponies, light horses, and heavy horses, with helpful statistics providing essential information at a glance. Key selling points: Appealing compact gift format. Digestible and fascinating text for each...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
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ISBN: 9781786645524
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 October 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing
Edition: New edition
Illustration: 150 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 236.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 1103g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Catherine Austen is Hunting, Racing and Polo editor at Horse & Hound, and covers a wide variety of equestrian sports for Horse & Hound and other publications. She is an experienced Pony Club instructor, and regularly competes and goes hunting. She contributed to the BHS Complete Horse & Pony Care Manual. Sarah Gorrie has ridden and kept horses for 15 years. She has worked for Horse & Hound for four years, where she is dressage, team chasing and sport horse editor. She contributes to other sporting websites and equestrian publications such as HORSE. Pippa Roome is eventing editor of Horse & Hound. She was previously assistant editor of Eventing magazine and has also contributed features to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag and the Gatcombe Horse Trials 25th anniversary souvenir brochure. Nicola Jane Swinney is the hunting editor of Horse & Hound. A former newspaper journalist, she is the author of several equestrian titles, including the best-selling Spirit of the Horse, and is a regular contributor to other publications, both here and in the USA.
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