Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History - Couverture rigide

Raulff, Ulrich

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1631494325 ISBN 13 : 9781631494321

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is a literary translator of Arabic, German, and Russian into English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1631494325
• ISBN 13: 9781631494321
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible