Vg. Vg. 235 Pages, Illustrated With B/w Photos. Tight, Clean Book; Very Light Wear To Blue Boards. . written In A Lively Fashion, This Book Traces The Evolution Of The Horse And The Problem Of Its Domestication--how, Where And When--and The Anatomical Structure And Functioning Of The Body. In A Retrospective Chapter On Equine Evolution The Author Traces The Descent Of The Highly Specialised One Toed Horse Of Today From The Fox Sized Many Toed Jungle Dawn Horse Of Tertiary Times....the Author Does Not, As Many Other Authors Do, Measure The Individual By The Standard Of Some Ideal Horse, But Against Its Suitability For A Given Purpose.
