A history of british native ponies Anthony Dent Daphne Machin Goodall

Isbn: 9780851314365 in nette gelezen staat

First published in 1962 under the title foals of epona this scholarly history of british native ponies takes as its starting point, the iron age, when the cult of the celtic goddess epona, patroness of horse-breeders was widely diffused in north-west europe and was spread still wider by the roman empire. After a prologue on the field of hastings, where the events of 14th october 1066 were as momentous in equine as in human history, the authors revert briefly to the earliest days of the domestic horse in britain and then follow a straight chronological course, embracing the whole of britain and and ireland, down to the dawn of the railway age. At this point, to which many of the established pony stud books look back in retrospect if not in actual recorded detail, a different plan is adopted and the history since about 1825 is dealt with regionally, divided as to the far north, the scottish lowlands and northern england, the eastern counties, the south-west, wales and ireland. When living memory wakes up says a distinguished modern writer on the history of animal husbandry, it is time for history to go to bed, and so the book closes with the mention of some animals and bloodlines which are within the personal experience of people now living. - There are sixty line drawings in text and six maps, with eighty photographic subjects arranged in two groups of plates. These plates are followed by notes on them which in some measure recapitulate the story told by the text. And it is quite a story. Quite a history.

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