Horse history in the history of mankind. Kurskaya V.

For several millennia, the horse has been serving a person. On horses they plowed, hunted, transported goods, fought, they were grown for meat. But most importantly, horses were connected by earthly spaces: without them, the emergence of the first empires would be impossible, and the whole human history would have developed differently. For their possession of their wars, they were cherished than the anti -aircraft guns, but sometimes - as valuable property - they were destroyed, so that they would not go to the enemy. The historian and hippologist Vera Kurskaya tells about the horses of the ancient kingdoms, Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Byzantines, Huns, Mongols, the Arab East, the European Middle Ages, India, China, Japan, Ancient Rus'. And, of course, about the greatest variety of modern breeds-from the handsome caccunas and the steppe heavy trucks to the dwarf appaluz-poon. As well as about the techniques of riding and harness driving, crew structures and the traditions of horse breeding of different countries. The facts collected in this interesting book will be more than enough for an extensive encyclopedia.