Where have all the horses gone?
Eric Banks: Horse Power, 5 July 2018
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History
by Susanna Forrest.
Atlantic, 418 pp., £9.99, October 2017,978 0 85789 900 2 Show More
by Susanna Forrest.
Atlantic, 418 pp., £9.99, October 2017,
Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship
by Ulrich Raulff, translated by Ruth AhmedzaiKemp.
Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, February 2018,978 0 14 198317 2 Show More
by Ulrich Raulff, translated by Ruth AhmedzaiKemp.
Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, February 2018,
“... Eight million horses perished in the First World War, along with untold numbers of donkeys and mules, just as the ascendency of the car made clear that the pervasiveness of the horse as a working animal was coming to an end. The disappearance of the horse from urban –and later rural – life didn’t happen overnight. Horses and donkeys were still found in great numbers in British towns and cities until just after the Second World War, when the shift to motorised transportation of goods caused the collapse of the equine market and 200,000 city animals were euthanised in a two-year period ... ”
