Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion by MELISSA HOLBROOK PIERSON - 2001-01-01

Granta Books. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardback. Very Good.

Granta Books, January 2001. Hardcover. Used - Very Good.

Granta Books, 2001. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Hardback with D/J in good condition, ex library book, first page corner clipped. 2001 1st Granta edition. During her midlife quest to explain the horse-filled frenzy of her childhood, Pierson (The Perfect Vehicle: What Is It About Motorcycles?) interviews the founder of an equine welfare group who expertly classifies the three kinds of women who love horses: "[T]hose who want something out of them, personally or professionally; those who anthropomorphize them; and those who are seeking a higher knowledge about horses and humans and the mysteries of their intersection." The author falls into the last group as she plumbs the depths of both the feminine and the equine, looking closely at how the two intertwine. Although the book freely mixes history, memoir, sociology, psychology and even snippets of poetry, Pierson does follow a clear narrative line. Acknowledging that her love of horses has endured long past childhood, she signs up for riding… Read More

Granta Books. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Granta Books. 2001 Granta Books first UK edition hardback; very good clean copy with very good unclipped dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Hardcover. 2001.

London: Granta Books, 2001. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), decorative black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 254 pp. In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world woke one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things equine. The author, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, was one of those horse-crazy girls who later returned to riding with a new appreciation for the nature of horses. Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, this book delves beneath the shallow hypotheses explaining women's connection to horses to look at how this communication with another animal opens us up to a new apprehension of the larger 'natural' world.