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Equine Fictions

Jopi Nyman
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Author : Jopi Nyman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781527533219

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This innovative volume approaches the intriguing relationship between humans and horses in 21st-century Anglophone fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It addresses the strong emotional power attached to the human-horse bond, and contextualizes horse narratives within debates concerning identity and its politics. The in-depth analysis deals with topics such as the intertwinement of humans and animals, healing, mourning, and nostalgia in horse narratives, and the formation of gendered and national identities. The volume pays particular attention to life writing by Susan Richards, Rupert Isaacson, and Buck Brannaman, fiction by Gillian Mears and Jane Smiley, and Follyfoot fanfiction. Because of its focus on narratives telling of today’s human-horse encounters and its explicit attention to diverse textual forms, this book represents a unique contribution to the study of human-horse encounters in contemporary writing, and will be of particular use to scholars working in human-animal studies, Anglophone literature, and American studies.

Deadly Equines

CuChullaine O'Reilly
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Author : CuChullaine O'Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1590480031

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There is widespread belief in a warm and comforting story which states the horse is a gentle herbivore. What if a Rosetta Stone had been found to unlock the dark secrets of the horse s past? An international multi-million dollar industry serviced by horse whisperers, glossy magazines and popular culture preaches that horses are meek prey animals who fear predators. What if evidence demonstrated horses have slain lions, tigers, pumas, wolves, hyenas and humans? Contemporary writers have successfully airbrushed murderous and meat-eating horses out of literature. What if Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and Steve McQueen provided artistic evidence to refute that claim? Thanks to global equestrian amnesia, the crucial role played by horses in recent history has been lost to mankind. What if testimony revealed meat-eating horses had been used to explore the Poles and photographs had been discovered of Tibet s blood-eating horses? Deadly Equines is a revolutionary departure from equestrian romance. It is a fact-filled analysis which reveals how humanity has known about meat-eating horses for at least four thousand years, during which time horses have consumed nearly two dozen different types of protein, including human flesh, and that these episodes have occurred on every continent, including Antarctica. Various sources of corroborating data, including legends, literature, cinema, news stories, scientific reports and eyewitness accounts are presented for the reader s investigation. None of these items had been hidden. They were ignored, misinterpreted or, in some cases, censored. The result is the first exploration of the horse s hidden history, an alternative equestrian world populated by forgotten facts, overlooked evidence and astonishing stories. Amply illustrated, and containing a map of occurrences, this study challenges the reader to develop a new under-standing of the horse, one based upon reason, not fantasy.

By Heart & By Soul

Hannah E. Carey
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Author : Hannah E. Carey
Publisher : Hannah E. Carey
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hooves & Hearts Book 0.5 Fake it till you make it, right? Meg Beckett has packed up everything she has, which isn't much, and left her life in Georgia behind for a new start in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She knows how lucky she is to have gotten a job at Heart & Soul Ranch; just like she knows she can't afford to lose it. But Meg hasn't been entirely honest with her new employer. Her horse experience isn't nearly as extensive as she talked it up to be and it doesn't take her long to realize that she's in way over her head. There's no way she's going back to the dead end future she left behind, but she'd better learn fast if she doesn't want to find herself out of a home and a job. Heart and Soul Ranch is her escape, but will her past catch up with her? By Heart & By Soul is a prequel novella in the Hooves & Hearts Series. This equestrian women's fiction novella has all the small town vibes, a hint of humor, and horsewomen who support each other and love their horses.

Horse

Geraldine Brooks
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Author : Geraldine Brooks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399562983

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“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review “Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME “A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusion—you just can’t look away.” —Oprah Daily Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award · Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize · A Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

King of the Wind

Marguerite Henry
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Author : Marguerite Henry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Arabian horse
ISBN : 9780689845130

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Born in the stables of the Sultan of Morocco, an Arabian stallion named Sham is taken to England, along with the loyal yet mute Arab stable boy who tends to him, and becomes one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed.

Incredible Horse Tales

Jessie Shiers
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Author : Jessie Shiers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781461749134

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Horses have been at the right hand of man for thousands of years. They have helped build empires and helped bring them down. Horses have carried the doctor swiftly to the door of a dying mother and galloped across the vast distances of the American West, bringing news to the settlers. Horses today are our companions in sport, dashing to the finish line or leaping impossibly high fences for the sheer glory of the win. Horses also lurk in the mists of myth and legend. Here are the most exciting horse stories compiled from human history, both fact and fiction.

The Horse Tamer

Walter Farley
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Author : Walter Farley
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307804884

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While waiting for a delayed airplane, old Henry Dailey, the Black's trainer, tells young Alec Ramsay a story of his own youth, travelling with his brother, Bill. Bill Dailey's talent as a horse-whisperer was unmatched in the days before the automobile and young Henry tells of an unscrupulous con-man who mistreats horses into behaving temporarily. Bill is determined to show that the man is a fraud, but can he unmask the con without getting hurt?Walter Farley experimented with many genres of writing and here, in his only foray into historical fiction, he weaves a fascinating tale of life when horses were the primary means of transportation.

The Age of the Horse

Susanna Forrest
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Author : Susanna Forrest
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802189516

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A “superb” account of the enduring connection between humans and horses—“Full of the sort of details that get edited out of more traditional histories” (The Economist). Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth—and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. It has sustained us as a source of food, an industrial and agricultural machine, a comrade in arms, a symbol of wealth, power, and the wild. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdote, equestrian expert Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as literature and art to illustrate how our evolution has coincided with that of horses. In paintings and poems (such as Byron’s famous “Mazeppa”), in theater and classical music (including works by Liszt and Tchaikovsky), representations of the horse have changed over centuries, portraying the crucial impact that we’ve had on each other. Forrest combines this history with her own experience in the field, and travels the world to offer a comprehensive look at the horse in our lives today: from Mongolia where she observes the endangered takhi, to a show-horse performance at the Palace of Versailles; from a polo club in Beijing to Arlington, Virginia, where veterans with PTSD are rehabilitated through interaction with horses. “For the horse-addicted, a book can get no better than this . . . original, cerebral and from the heart.” —The Times (London)

The Grey Horse

R. A. MacAvoy
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Author : R. A. MacAvoy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497602762

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The Grey Horse by R. A. MacAvoy Pdf

“No fantasy writer working today has a defter touch with Irish magic” (Morgan Llywelyn, author of Lion of Ireland). Set against the colorful and magical backdrop of Ireland, The Grey Horse chronicles a time when the Irish people suffered under harsh English overlords who sought to destroy their culture and way of life. In the Irish town of Carraroe, a magnificent, completely grey stallion appears. The horse brings with him the promise of better times and magical happenings, for he is actually the shape-shifted form of Ruairi MacEibhir, journeyed to such a time of danger in order to win the hand of the woman he loves.

A Horse Named Steve

Kelly Collier
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Author : Kelly Collier
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771388825

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A Horse Named Steve by Kelly Collier Pdf

“Steve is a fine horse. But he thinks he could be finer. He wants to be EXCEPTIONAL.” When Steve finds a gold horn in the forest and attaches it to his head, ta-da! Exceptional! His friends are so impressed, they, too, attach objects to their own heads, in an effort to be as exceptional as Steve. So when Steve suddenly realizes his horn has gone missing, he’s devastated! He won’t be exceptional without his horn! Or will he? A laugh-out-loud tale of an endearingly self-absorbed horse who learns that there’s more than one way to blow your own horn!

The Island Horse

Susan Hughes
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Author : Susan Hughes
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554539949

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The Island Horse by Susan Hughes Pdf

"Ellie believes that she will live in her little village on the coast of Nova Scotia for always. But when her father gets a job on Sable Island, she must say farewell to her beloved home and her mother's final resting place. Not even the idea of seeing the wild horses that roam the island can ease her pain of leaving. And after arriving on the sandy, windswept crescent of land, Ellie feels adrift and alone ... until one afternoon when she wakens on a dune to find herself looking into the curious eyes of a wild stallion. Little by little, as the days pass, Ellie gets closer to the beautiful chocolate-colored horse. Yet she soon discovers something that could take him away from his home, his herd, and her. Ellie has lost too much already. Will she loose her island horse, too?"--P. [2] of cover.

Confessions of a Timid Rider

Heather Wallace
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Author : Heather Wallace
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1387812890

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Confessions of a Timid Rider by Heather Wallace Pdf

A memoir detailing a woman's insights about being an anxiety-ridden but passionate equestrian. After returning to riding as a mother, she is determined to follow her dreams despite the fear she is somehow lacking in talent or ability. An in-depth look into the heart and head of a returning adult equestrian, this message is not limited only those with horse experience. In fact, Confessions of a Timid Rider is the perfect book to read for anyone whom even for a moment questions their value in their designated profession or life choice. This book will inspire you to pursue your dreams despite the inner voice that says you arenÕt good enough.

Horse Crazy

Sarah Maslin Nir
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Author : Sarah Maslin Nir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501196249

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ONE OF USA TODAY'S “20 SUMMER BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS” In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people—including herself—are obsessed with horses. It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America—even more than when they were the only means of transportation—and nearly two million horse owners. Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir is one of them; she began riding horses when she was just two years old and hasn’t stopped since. Horse Crazy is a fascinating, funny, and moving love letter to these graceful animals and the people who—like her—are obsessed with them. It is also a coming-of-age story of Nir growing up an outsider within the world’s most elite inner circles, and finding her true north in horses. Nir takes readers into the lesser-known corners of the riding world and profiles some of its most captivating figures. We meet Monty Roberts, the California trainer whose prowess earned him the nickname “the man who listens to horses,” and his pet deer; George and Ann Blair, who at their riding academy on a tiny island in Manhattan’s Harlem River seek to resurrect the erased legacy of the African American cowboy; and Francesca Kelly, whose love for an Indian nobleman shaped her life’s mission: to protect an endangered Indian breed of horse and bring them to America. Woven into these compelling character studies, Nir shares her own moving personal narrative. She details her father’s harrowing tale of surviving the Holocaust, and describes an enchanted but deeply lonely upbringing in Manhattan, where horses became her family. She found them even in the middle of the city, in a stable disguised in an old townhouse and in Central Park, when she chased down truants as an auxiliary mounted patrol officer. And she speaks candidly of how horses have helped her overcome heartbreak and loss. Infused with heart and wit, and with each chapter named after a horse Nir has loved, Horse Crazy is an unforgettable blend of beautifully written memoir and first-rate reporting.

In Search Of Peace

Lynn Mann
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Author : Lynn Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 191617213X

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A novel for horse lovers who know that there is more to horses than meets the eye.

Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse

Gina M. Dorré
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Author : Gina M. Dorré
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351875899

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Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse by Gina M. Dorré Pdf

The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorré shows how discourses about horses reveal and negotiate anxieties related to industrialism and technology, constructions of gender and sexuality, ruptures in the social fabric caused by class conflict and mobility, and changes occasioned by national "progress" and imperial expansion. She argues that as a cultural object, the horse functions as a repository of desire and despair in a society rocked by astonishing social, economic, and technological shifts. While representations of horses abound in Victorian fiction, Gina M. Dorré's study focuses on those novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Braddon, Anna Sewell, and George Moore that engage with the most impassioned controversies concerning horses and horse-care, such as the introduction of the steam engine, popular new methods of horse-taming, debates over the tight-reining of horses, and the moral furor surrounding gambling at the race track. Her book establishes the centrality of the horse as a Victorian cultural icon and explores how through it, dominant ideologies of gender and class are created, promoted, and disrupted.