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Horses and humans reveal an ancient, profoundly complex marriage. Once our most essential companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and establishments. But during the 20th century, within an increasingly mechanized world, they commenced to fade away from human history. Within this esoteric and abundant tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly evaluating how they've been muses and brothers in biceps and triceps, neglected and sacrificed in battle yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels - and in the end marginalized on racetracks and in pony clubs. Elegiac and absorbing, Farewell to the Horse paints a sensational panorama of a global formed by hooves, and the imprint remaining on humankind.
