International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds [Hardcover]

Bonnie L. Hendricks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

A standard reference on horse breeds, illustrated and updated

Celebrating the animal that has been a stalwart servant to humankind for countless generations, Bonnie Hendricks’s International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds is the most thorough compilation of horse breeds ever attempted. The nearly four hundred entries, arranged alphabetically, include foundation breeds now extinct as well as extant breeds from across the globe. Each entry details the breed’s origin and background, size, appearance, chief use, and status (rare versus common). A list of breed associations and government departments that supplied data and photographs for the encyclopedia has been fully updated for this edition.

With its breadth and depth of coverage, as well as 530 black-and-white and 32 color illustrations, the encyclopedia continues to be a standard international reference.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This volume claims to be the most complete compilation of horse breeds ever attempted, including nearly 400 breeds from all over the world. Hendricks has bred and raised several types of horses and has spent over 30 years studying horse breeds. Abandoning the practice of other horse encyclopedias, which attempt to group breeds by function, she simply lists them in alphabetical order. Each breed entry includes information about breed origin and background, size, appearance, chief use, and status (rare vs. common). Most entries include photographs and are of varying length, running from a few paragraphs to several pages. Hendricks obtained this information from breed authorities and organizations, and the appendix includes a complete list of breed associations with addresses. This book should not be compared to Elwyn Hartley Edwards's Encyclopedia of the Horse (LJ 11/15/94) as the latter emphasizes horse evolution and covers far fewer breeds (150). This authoritative effort is highly recommended as an essential purchase for all equine collections and medium to large reference collections.?Deborah Emerson, Monroe Community Coll. Lib., Rochester, N.Y.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

The price tag on this hefty reference may limit its acquisition to reference collections with strong horse studies; but any such collection should consider this an important addition. Almost four hundred breeds of horses are described, including history, origins, details of the uses of the horse, and accounts of training. Included here are extinct and unusual breeds, gathering facts from breeders' associations and authorities. -- Midwest Book Review

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; 1st edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806127538
• ISBN-13: 978-0806127538
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,291,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most comprehensive, interesting guide book around!, December 16, 1998

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Orionfarms (Linden, VA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds (Hardcover)

This is the best book in my equine library. It it the only book I have found which contains good information about little known breeds, such as the Asturian, Lewitzer, Pinzgauer, and Moyle Horse. Each desciption is well-researched and contains a great deal of information about that breed's origin, conformation, population, and common usage. If you show model horses, it is an invaluable guide for breed assignment; how else would you know that your San Domingo makes a perfect Wielkopolski, or that your standing Thoroughbred Mare is an ideal Cirit horse? The only thing that would make this book better would be color photos, but that would most likely make it prohibitively expensive.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best, most complete horse breeds book I have ever seen!, August 28, 2000

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fjorab (Tennessee, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds (Hardcover)

Bonnie Hendricks has gone far beyond what any other horse breed researcher has done...she has contacted every breed association she possibly could. She has written with far more detail, greater accuracy, and on many more breeds than any other horse book I have seen. Her intelligent ideas inserted into some breed descriptions are well worth noting. This is a MUST-HAVE for the serious equine enthusiast! It has definitely spoiled my appetite for any other horse book that attempts to describe the breeds. Thanks Bonnie, we needed this book!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most difinitive work for tracking the breed's....., July 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds (Hardcover)

This book is a must for anyone who is interested in the origin and development of horse breed's throught the world. It allows a serious rider the chance to find an animal that has qualities that one is looking for specifically and where they are located...Well, worth the investment as it answers some very difficult questions that used to end in the answer 'I don't know!'....