Horses and Other Voices - Couverture souple

Sanders, Letitia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996148906 ISBN 13 : 9780996148900

Editeur : Huntleigh Press, 2015

Synopsis

If you loved All Creatures Great and Small, you will enjoy this tale of transition from a life in the computer industry to that of barn manager at a horse boarding and riding facility. Horses and Other Voices tracks the special bonds between people and their horses. Individuals of all ages, backgrounds and dispositions make an appearance, along with horses of different breeds, several barn cats, the official ranch dog and a lonely turkey named Wanda. These stories cover a range of emotions: happy, sad, frightening, hilarious and triumphant. You will be present at the drama of horse shows and will learn something about the discipline of dressage. Finally, you will experience, with the author, the deep relationship and love between humans and animals—the overriding theme of this book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Letitia Sanders was born and grew up in a small town in Georgia where her pets were among her best friends. She followed her intellectual side to study English and creative writing and became Phi Beta Kappa at Sweet Briar College and Emory University. After the death of her fiancé in Vietnam in 1967, she moved to San Francisco where she began a 23-year career working with computers for IBM. She progressed from programmer on the huge TOPS project, the largest real-time computer system in the world at the time, to becoming an instructor for IBM, traveling around the US, introducing new computers like the PC to IBM personnel and IBM customers. She married Donn Downing, a retired TIME Magazine reporter who had reported from Vietnam and the White House. On weekends she rode Arabian horses in the coastal hills with a friend from whom she bought an Arabian colt named Shaman. Upon retirement from IBM, Letitia completely deserted the computer world to work part-time at the ranch where Shaman was stabled. Her life became centered around horses, and she became a founding member of the California Nevada Arabian Sport Horse Association. Shaman's ability led her to join the US Dressage Foundation. More recently, Letitia decided to exercise the writing talents she had studied in college. In a sense, she found herself back where she started, surrounded by animals and their stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Huntleigh Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996148906
• ISBN 13: 9780996148900
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg