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,
“... just held on to its tail or mane and kept walking.’In Farewell to the Horse, the literary critic Ulrich Raulff is alert to the absurdities, paradoxes, curiosities and comic possibilities associated with the human reliance on the horse. Take the ‘pastoral incident’ in Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, where a dead donkey in the road causes the ... ”