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The Horse Lover's Bible: The Complete Practical Guide to Horse Care and Management
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An extremely useful book for the general rider.
--Horse Country Written in accessible language... reader-friendly layout includes color photos on every page.
--Sci-Tech News This comprehensive and up-to-date reference takes a different approach to horse care and management by providing insights into the reasons why horses behave the way they do. Following the author's good counsel here, riders and owners can ensure their horses receive the best care while developing a valuable, lasting rapport with them. The book's straightforward layout guides the owner and rider through the full range of issues, from assessing and purchasing a horse, to maintaining its well-being and ensuring its fitness, preparing for competitions, dealing with illness and injury, and much more. Checklist summaries appear at the end of each section. Step-by-step photographs and quick-reference boxes complement the comprehensive text. The topics The Horse Lover's Bible is a thorough and outstanding handbook for any rider, and especially valuable to new owners.
An extremely useful book for the general rider.
--Horse Country Written in accessible language... reader-friendly layout includes color photos on every page.
--Sci-Tech News This comprehensive and up-to-date reference takes a different approach to horse care and management by providing insights into the reasons why horses behave the way they do. Following the author's good counsel here, riders and owners can ensure their horses receive the best care while developing a valuable, lasting rapport with them. The book's straightforward layout guides the owner and rider through the full range of issues, from assessing and purchasing a horse, to maintaining its well-being and ensuring its fitness, preparing for competitions, dealing with illness and injury, and much more. Checklist summaries appear at the end of each section. Step-by-step photographs and quick-reference boxes complement the comprehensive text. The topics The Horse Lover's Bible is a thorough and outstanding handbook for any rider, and especially valuable to new owners.
- GenresHorses
224 pages, Paperback
First published July 2, 2008
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About the author
Tamsin Pickeral
50 books14 followersTamsin Pickeral is an art historian and an author of books on art, horses, animals and travel.
She wrote her first book, The Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies (published 1999) while living in the US, where she stayed for eight years, and has since that time written or co-written over twenty books.
She has lived back in the UK since 2004.
Pickeral's books are published internationally and have received critical acclaim in the media. This includes her book The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art, chosen as Book of the Week by The Guardian newspaper (2006), and her book, The Dog: 5,000 Years of the Dog in Art, picked as one of the Top Fifty Art Books of the Year, 2008 by the Financial Times and voted into the Sunday Times Books Of The Year, Art, 2008.
She wrote her first book, The Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies (published 1999) while living in the US, where she stayed for eight years, and has since that time written or co-written over twenty books.
She has lived back in the UK since 2004.
Pickeral's books are published internationally and have received critical acclaim in the media. This includes her book The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art, chosen as Book of the Week by The Guardian newspaper (2006), and her book, The Dog: 5,000 Years of the Dog in Art, picked as one of the Top Fifty Art Books of the Year, 2008 by the Financial Times and voted into the Sunday Times Books Of The Year, Art, 2008.
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May 17, 2013
This book is extremely informative and thorough. It gives you a general knowledge of every bit of horsemanship, without over-expanding on any specific pieces.
If you are going to buy a horse-instructing book, make it this one. It's a must have in any barn setting. It's also really interesting, even if you don't ride or work around horses.
If you are going to buy a horse-instructing book, make it this one. It's a must have in any barn setting. It's also really interesting, even if you don't ride or work around horses.
December 17, 2010
Very good horse book. Great section on feeding, first aid, and diseases. May be the best horse book I've read.
July 5, 2011
Very nice general reference.
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