Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Raulff, Ulrich

Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History

Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for...
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Author: Ulrich Raulff
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Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Raulff, Ulrich

Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History

€57,41

Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History

€57,41
Author: Ulrich Raulff
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the twentieth century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from human history. In this esoteric and rich tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly examining how they've been muses and brothers in arms, neglected and sacrificed in war yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels--and ultimately marginalized on racetracks and in pony clubs. Elegiac and absorbing, Farewell to the Horse paints a stunning panorama of a world shaped by hooves, and the imprint left on humankind.

"A beautiful and thoughtful exploration. . . . Farewell to the Horse is a grown-up, but also lyrical and creative, history book, and I very much enjoyed it."-- James Rebanks, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shepherd's Life



Author: Ulrich Raulff
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 02/13/2018
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781631494321


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2017 pg. 152
Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 121

About the Author
Raulff, Ulrich: - Ulrich Raulff is director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar. He has won the Anna Krüger Prize, the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize, and the 2010 Leipzig Book Fair Prize.Kemp, Ruth Ahmedzai: - Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is a literary translator of Arabic, German, and Russian into English.

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