The Last of the Wild Horses

Joan McGrath is a Toronto Board of Education library consultant.

The beauty, majesty, and freedom of the wild horse have always had the power to stir mankind’s imagination. Unhappily, they have also stirred his lust to conquer and to dominate. Now, when encroaching civilization threatens even their last strongholds, the few remaining wild horses of the world are almost magical in their appeal. This magnificently illustrated outsize volume records the appearance, habit, and varied ways of life of the Przewalskis of Mongolia, the Tarpans of Poland, the British ponies, such as those who roam Exmoor, the marsh horses of the French Camargue, the horses of Sable Island, the Australian Brumbies, and the American mustang. Tough, untamed, many of them untameable, they are all at the mercy of the elements and the ever-increasing environmental damage inflicted by man. They still survive — but for how long? This splendid photographic account of the very last of the wild horses is a work that cannot fail to haunt the reader’s memory.