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 Ahmedzai Kemp.
Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, February 2018,978 0 14 198317 2 Show More
by Ulrich Raulff, translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, February 2018,
“... but five years was the norm before their knees started to go).‘There was an entire geography,’ Susanna Forrest writes in The Age of the Horse,from mews, coach houses, jobmasters’ stables, fodder merchants, knackers, harness makers, smiths, wheelwrights, whip makers, loriners, rat catchers, tanners, makers of straw sun hats for horses, strappers who ... ”
