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Fifty-six million years back, the initial equid strolled the earth-and you start with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Era, the equine has played an integral part in human history. Combining attractive anthropological information and incisive personal anecdotes, Susanna Forrest pulls from an immense selection of archival documents as well as books and art to demonstrate how our progression has coincided your 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 equine have transformed over centuries, portraying the crucial impact that we've experienced on one another. Forrest deftly synthesizes this materials with her own experience in the field, visiting the globe to provide us a diverse, extensive go through the horse inside our lives today: from Mongolia where she observes the endangered takhi, to a show-horse performance at the Palace of Versailles; from a polo team in Beijing to Arlington, Virginia, where veterans with PTSD are rehabilitated through conversation with horses. With love and singular understanding, Forrest investigates the complexities of real human and equine coexistence, illuminating the multifaceted ways our civilizations were shaped by this powerful creature.
