- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (14 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0393049477
- ISBN-13: 978-0393049473
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,449,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Offers a look at women's fascination with equine history and horseback riding, explaining this intimate link between species in terms of humankind's relationship with the animal world.
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I WOULDN'T MIND feeling it again, the first time I fell in love. Read the first page
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A fantastic reminder of the passion of horses,
By roseoxley@hotmail.com (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful book full of the memories of any woman who has once loved and coverted a pony. Reading Melissa Holbrook Piersons' work captures the excitment and very special relationship that young girls have with the equine world. She explains the development of the relationship between women and horses accross several decades of war, voiolence, freedom and eventually respect. Her style of writing invites the reader to remember a past when as a young girl they first fell in love with the pony at the riding school or in the field down the road. Antidotes from literature and horse owners, both past and present, underpin the context of the book and add another depth to the writing. This fantastic piece of writing is a must for any one who knows what it is like to want or even need a horse.
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A beautifully written book,
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This review is from: Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion (Paperback)
This book is certainly one to read for all of those women who have been more interested in mucking out than painting their nails.Melissa Pierson catches the esscence of why women like horses and recites some beautiful stories ranging from 'multi-storey stables' to galloping free. A book that deserves a read on a warm, sunny afternoon.
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Modern Tales of an Enduring Relationship,
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This review is from: Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion (Hardcover)
Whereas the dog may be man's best friend, the horse, Holbrook-Pierson suggests, is number one contender to be a woman's best friend. Equines feature highly on the list of many men also, myself included, though this book does come across as a modern American city girl's love affair with equus caballus and a powerful critique on the current day plight of this majestic animal.
In many ways, this is a horse lover's equivalent of Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch" - a series of deep reflections on what it is that makes the relationship between women and horses so special, beautifully written, at times inspiring, whilst at others brutally sad. Holbrook-Pierson intersperses her reflections with investigative journalism, a style which I found very engaging. I originally read this as a library loan book and ended up buying it to re-read. I'm not sure I'm much clearer why more women might list horses as their closest animal friend than men, but there is plenty of food for thought contained in this beautiful documentary.
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