[.ca] Wild About Horses: Our Timeless Passion For The Horse (ISBN 0679309535)

New Age Slant on good horse yarns:
I gave "Wild About Horses" four stars instead of five because I'd already heard or read most of the stories in my fifty years of being 'wild about horses'. They're good stories though, and well worth repeating. Scanlan reports a variation on 'The Pacing Mustang' (one of my all time favorites): the wild stallion who threw himself off of a cliff rather than endure capture by men. He includes a chapter on 'Epic Rides' which made me want to just saddle up and go (one of his riders, A.F. Tschiffely rode 10,000 miles from the tip of South of America to Washington D.C. in two and a half years. Anyone game for a trip from Texas to Alaska?). 'Wild About Horses' would be an excellent book to give to your horse-crazy teen-ager. It's all about relationships (between horses and humans, in this case) and is written in a laid-back, New Age style that is easy to read. Scanlan talks about his own experiences with horses, and if you're a beginning rider you'll empathize with him!

Very Good Book:
This book is excellent. It has so much information about horses, domestic and wild, and about their riders. I would have to agree with Ian Millar on the fact that this book is very insightful.

I LOVED IT!!!:
This book was so good that I'm going to get it. I got from the library, read it, and this is the first non fiction book that I wasn't forcing myself to get through.Highly recomended for all horse-a-holics :)

Fabulous Fillies & Capricious Colts!:
Even if you're not really a "horsey" person, you can't not love this book. It's a fun, informative, and heartwarming treatment of horses throughout history. I also like cats, so I wrote to the author and asked him to write a book on puddies, next!

An excellent, excellent book for the horse fanatic.:
I always knew that there were others of us out there...those horse crazed people who can't get enough of our equine friend. This book tries to unlock the secrets of our obession with horses through wonderful tales of people and their horses. It helps to explain why it is that we must stop our car and just look out at a pasture filled with horses silently grazing. What an excellent, excellent book. When you're, done, you'll want to read it again.