The Ultimate Horse Book is one of the most beautiful books about horses ever produced, featuring over 80 of the world's most important horse breeds.
Visual encyclopedia
Each breed featured has a double-page biography, which includes a specially commissioned, fully annotated photographic study, often with separate head and quarter details, and illustrations or photographs showing how the breed was used in the past, or how it is used at present.
Compiled and written by Elwyn Hartley Edwards, doyen of the equine world, the immensely readable text provides details on the history, uses and characteristics of each breed. The breed section builds into a fascinating factual tapestry, revealing the way in which breeds have cross-bred and, while inheriting certain characteristics, have retained their essential individuality.
Practical and informative
The Ultimate Horse Book not only provides information on the breeds, it also gives practical information on how to keep horses, how to feed and groom them, and how to make sure that they are comfortable in their stables.
The Ultimate Horse Book delves into the origin of the equine species, and shows how the horse came to look as it does today. A comprehensive section looks at the fascinating relationship between horse and man, both past and present. It reveals how horses have provided man with help and pleasure through the centuries and traces the forging of a powerful and vital relationship between the two.