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sweetcheeksbiblophile's review
5.0
Absolutely fascinating! Lots of wonderful facts dispersed with anecdotes. Great information about other animals as well as humans to get a clearer picture of how awesome horses really are. Highly recommend if you love horses or history or archeology or zooarcheology.
starsal's review against another edition
5.0
WOW, did I adore this book. Williams is the rare kind of author that makes reading nonfiction as easy and as fun as reading a novel. This book is packed full of fascinating information that you are immediately compelled to share with the next human you come into contact with.
Whereas with many non-fiction books, my perseverance starts to flag toward the end of the book, I wished this one would go on longer. That's probably a combination of the author's skill and my fascination with the subject matter, but I would recommend this book to anyone.
Also, it has a lovely cover.
Whereas with many non-fiction books, my perseverance starts to flag toward the end of the book, I wished this one would go on longer. That's probably a combination of the author's skill and my fascination with the subject matter, but I would recommend this book to anyone.
Also, it has a lovely cover.
bugsmell's review
4.0
I love our relationship with animals bruh that is so beautiful we love horsies omg yes I do
murtha179's review
3.0
I am just not nearly interested enough in evolution from millions of years ago, even when it's about horses. Had I known it was going go be such a paleontology heavy read, I would have skipped it. But it was clearly well researched and it was well written and the modern day anticdotes and observations were enjoyable.
reader_taylor's review
informative
medium-paced
This book was so well-researched. Multiple researchers were spoken to in the creation of this, which also covers so many different topics. Horse evolution, cognitive thinking, rehabilitation, and the history of the horse is all detailed. There are mentions of horses all over the world in the same time periods. I definitely learned a lot more about horses and feel a little more connected to them than I did before. Learning about the trust and bond horses and humans share is inspiring.
theredqueenlinnea's review
adventurous
challenging
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
4.0
This was a really great read. There’s an obvious love by Williams here for the entirety of the horse, and a good albeit ‘scientifically behind’ ethic about how horses should be treated, though that’s probably just due to her age. Nothing negative, just seems she learned that horses are actually sentient beings with personality that deserve respect way later than she should have. Reader beware: this is a very detailed evolutionary science book, which I love and preferred, but if you’re not into that and would like less evolutionary history this may not be the book for you.
audaciaray's review
2.0
I learned a lot from this book, but I wish there was a lot more of narrative of her visiting places with bands of wild horses and describing them. She traveled a lot for the Reseach for the book but it seems like that got glossed over a lot. The book is really heavy on evolution of horses... Ok I am just going to say a dumb thing here: I know evolution took a realllllly long time but I wanted it to take up less time in the book.
jaclynday's review
3.0
It is indeed an epic history, and Williams shows every bit of it, taking nearly 75% of the book to trace the horse to prehistoric origins. There’s so much evolutionary research in here that you’d be forgiven if you occasionally forget the subject at hand, but eventually we get back to the modern horse, the complicated history between the animal and humans, and the amazing adaptations that allow the species to survive in nearly habitat on earth.