A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse - Couverture souple

Brown, Nancy Marie

 
9781490525310: A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1490525319 ISBN 13 : 9781490525310
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

A good horse can make its rider "king for a while," according to Icelandic poetry. But finding a good horse requires a keen and practiced eye. One must see beyond the obvious attributes--appearance, color, and size--to discern a horse's true personality and temperament. Nancy Marie Brown puts her eye to the test when she travels to Iceland to find the perfect Icelandic horse she can bring home to her Pennsylvania farm and make her own.She arrives in Iceland shaken by tragedy, uncertain of the language, lacking confidence in her riding skills; but she's determined to make her search a success. She finds inspiration in the country's austere and majestic landscape, which is alive with the ghosts of an adventure-filled past. In the glacier-carved hinterland, she rides a variety of Icelandic horses--some spirited, willful, even heroic; others docile, trusting, or tame. She also meets an assortment of horse owners, who can be as independent as the animals they breed.Evocative, clear-headed, and richly described, this book is for anyone who has at some time in their life searched for something perfect.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nancy Marie Brown is the author of "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths" (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and "The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman" (Harcourt 2007), among other books of history and nonfiction for the general reader. She lives in Vermont with the writer Charles Fergus, their four Icelandic horses and an Icelandic sheepdog. "A Good Horse Has No Color" was her first book.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1490525319
ISBN 13 
9781490525310
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
242
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780811707046: A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0811707040 ISBN 13 :  9780811707046
Editeur : Stackpole Books, 2001
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