Description
This is a small gift size book one might find in a museum gift shop… aprox 6 inches, 50 pages. The front cover is a grey/green background with oil portrait of Mare and foal by Arthur Wardle. The book chapters describe the vital role of horses in civilization. Each chapter is two facing pages (one side has full page museum painting/artwork, the facing side has about three paragraphs of very informative text. The chapter titles are: Greece, China, Genghis Kahn, Trojan Horse, St George, Knights in Armour, Triumvirate Stallions, the thoroughbred, polo, foxhunting, dressage, steeplechasing, circus, agriculture, heavy horses of britain, the blacksmith, stagecoaches, mail coaches, shetland ponies, new forest ponies, horse in war, horse in art.