Add this copy of Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilisations to cart. $5.30, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Signal Books Ltd.
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New. "Full of wisdom, passion and wonder, "Horse" is the utterly fascinating and enlightening story of horses and humans from the beginning of time to the present. Ever since the dawn of human history, horses have held a mystical sway over our imagination: we respect and revere them like no other animal. We have conceived of them as both domesticated and free, both belonging to our civilisation and to the wild. At first, ours was an encounter of death, as prehistoric humans hunted horses all across the steppes of Asia, and throughout Europe. But they also painted horses full of grace and beauty on the walls of their caves, and gave them a central place in their songs and sacred rituals. Long before the invention of writing and the wheel, horses began to shape the way humans lived. Drawing on archaeology, biology, art, literature and ethnography, "Horse" illuminates the relationship between humans and horses throughout history-from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, from the Moors in Spain and the knights in France to the great horse cultures of native America.