The Complete Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies

by Tamsin Pickeral

1000 photographs and line drawing, Easy-to-use icons, blood type and tem-perament, identification boxes list approximate size, color variations and place of origin and much more.

Genres: Nonfiction, Horses

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Tamsin Pickeral is an art historian and an author of books on art, horses, animals and travel.

She wrote her first book, The Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies (published 1999) while living in the US, where she stayed for eight years, and has since that time written or co-written over twenty books.

She has lived back in the UK since 2004.

Pickeral's books are published internationally and have received critical acclaim in the media. This includes her book The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art, chosen as Book of the Week by The Guardian newspaper (2006), and her book, The Dog: 5,000 Years of the Dog in Art, picked as one of the Top Fifty Art Books of the Year, 2008 by the Financial Times and voted into the Sunday Times Books Of The Year, Art, 2008.

Reviews

[Danni Mocerino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing! Had so many horses in it and kept me entertained for months.

[Autumn Rae · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's an old book, but it's still accurate. This was the first big book I read as a horse autistic.

[Falabella · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great! It gives you more than enough information with engaging pictures and explanations about horses. This book is also great if you want to learn more about horses in general. What I find is so cool about this book is that it talks about the scientific side of horses and also the sports horses are used for. I didn't know a lot about horses before I read this book but now I feel that I am a lot more knowledgeable on that topic. I haven't read the book from cover to cover but I love opening the book up to random pages and finding out new facts.

[Madelyne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good book if you like horses. It's a little hard to comprehend though and sort of boring but the pictures are great!