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Book The Horses of San Simeon

Download or read book The Horses of San Simeon written by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Horses of San Simeon

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  • Author : Austine McDonnell Hearst
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780692545249
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The Horses of San Simeon written by Austine McDonnell Hearst and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the history of William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon is the history of California: from the Indians who first discovered its spectacular coastal location, to the Spanish missionaries who built their missions there, to the Mexican dons who acquired and worked the land, to goldminer George Hearst and his family, who preserved and expanded the grand coastal ranch. Each of these generations of owners brought horses to San Simeon, to work the land, to race and to ride. In "The Horses of San Simeon," Austine McDonnell Hearst tells a rich tale of the natural beauty, people and, especially, the horses--from workhorses to Thoroughbreds and grand Arabians--that made San Simeon famous.

Book San Simeon Stables  Hearst Ranch

Download or read book San Simeon Stables Hearst Ranch written by Hearst Ranch and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perestroika in Paris

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  • Author : Jane Smiley
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2020-12-01
  • ISBN : 0525520368
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Perestroika in Paris written by Jane Smiley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris in this "feel-good escape” (The New York Times). Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and—she's a curious filly—wanders all the way to the City of Light. She's dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live in seclusion. As the cold weather nears, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself? Jane Smiley's beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom.

Book The Illustrated Guide To The Morab Horse

Download or read book The Illustrated Guide To The Morab Horse written by Mary Lou Wells and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Half Broke  A Memoir

Download or read book Half Broke A Memoir written by Ginger Gaffney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2020 Border Regional Library Association Southwest Book Award “Truly transcendent.” —Jessica Lustig, New York Times Book Review This riveting memoir follows professional horse trainer Ginger Gaffney’s year-long odyssey to train a herd of neglected horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico. Working with her is a small team of ranch “residents,” men and women who are each uniquely broken by addiction and incarceration. Gaffney forms a bond with them as profound as the kinship and trust the residents discover among the troubled horses. Through these unforgettable characters—both animal and human—Half Broke tells a new kind of recovery story and speaks to the life-affirming joy of finding a sense of belonging.

Book The Saints of San Simeon

Download or read book The Saints of San Simeon written by Michele Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless journey of marvelous and moving stories of the SAINTS OF SAN SIMEON from the devotional collection at Hearst Castle comes to life in this engaging book. A scholar, local historian and patron of fine art and a collector of devotional art, Michele, a former guide at Hearst San Simeon Historical Monument, writes about the amazing and fascinating devotional art contained in the collection of newspaper tycoon William Randolf Hearst. Hearst was an avid collector of many artifacts in the 1920s and 1930s, including an extensive collection of devotional art. Her book describes the lives of the saints, their attributes and martyrdom.

Book Quarter Horses

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  • Author : Robert Moorman Denhardt
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 9780806122854
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Quarter Horses written by Robert Moorman Denhardt and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Quarter Horse in England and America, describing the most famous animals and breeders, and the emergence of the American Quarter Horse Association

Book Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

Book Here s who in Horses of the Pacific Coast

Download or read book Here s who in Horses of the Pacific Coast written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chronicle of the Horse

Download or read book Chronicle of the Horse written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mind of the Horse

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  • Author : Michel-Antoine Leblanc
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-04
  • ISBN : 0674727584
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book The Mind of the Horse written by Michel-Antoine Leblanc and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses were first domesticated about 6,000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe extending from Mongolia to the Carpathian Mountains. Yet only in the last two decades have scientists begun to explore the specific mental capacities of these animals. Responding to a surge of interest in fields from ethology to comparative psychology and evolutionary biology, Michel-Antoine Leblanc presents an encyclopedic synthesis of scientific knowledge about equine behavior and cognition. The Mind of the Horse provides experts and enthusiasts alike with an up-to-date understanding of how horses perceive, think about, and adapt to their physical and social worlds. Much of what we know--or think we know--about "the intelligence of the horse" derives from fragmentary reports and anecdotal evidence. Putting this accumulated wisdom to the test, Leblanc introduces readers to rigorous experimental investigations into how horses make sense of their world under varying conditions. He describes the anatomical and neurophysiological characteristics of the horse's brain, and offers an evolutionary perspective by comparing these features with those of other species. A horseman himself, Leblanc also considers the opinions of renowned riding masters, as well as controversies surrounding the extraordinary powers of the horse's mind that have stirred in equestrian and scientific circles. Although scientists understand more today about how horses think than at any time in our species' long acquaintance with these animals, much remains in the dark. The Mind of the Horse brings together the current state of equine research and will likely stimulate surprising new discoveries.

Book Hearst  Lord of San Simeon

Download or read book Hearst Lord of San Simeon written by Oliver Carlson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Desert Oracle

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  • Author : Ken Layne
  • Publisher : MCD
  • Release : 2020-12-08
  • ISBN : 0374722382
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Book History of San Luis Obispo County and Environs  California

Download or read book History of San Luis Obispo County and Environs California written by Annie L. Stringfellow Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lightkeepers  Menagerie

Download or read book The Lightkeepers Menagerie written by Elinor De Wire and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Where else would a dog learn to ring a fogbell, a cat go swimming and catch a fish for its supper, or a parrot cuss the storm winds rattling its cage? Who other than a lightkeeper would swim a cow home, tame a baby seal, adopt an orphan alligator, send messages via carrier pigeons, or imagine mermaids coming to visit? The Lightkeepers' Menagerie gathers together animal stories from lighthouses all around the world, tales of happiness and sadness, courage and cowardice, tragedy and comedy, even absurdity. Sometimes, fur, feathers, and fins tell the best tales.