Description: A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: A beautiful and thoughtful exploration. . . . It is shocking how recently we relied upon horses, and as this tale is told, shocking how fast we have moved away from our dependent working relationship with them. This fine history book tells the story of that relationship in its final century, and how horses still run through our culture in countless ways, distant echoes of the pact we long had with them.--James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life