Unicorns I Have Known [Hardcover]

Robert Vavra (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow; 1st edition (September 26, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688022030
• ISBN-13: 978-0688022037
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 9.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unicorns I Have Known, February 4, 2000

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S. Noyes "rhiannonkala" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unicorns I Have Known (Hardcover)

I got this book back when it first came out (it is even signed by Robert Vavra) and I love it. Although they use horses to portray the unicorns, (in an article I read, Vavra comments on the questions he gets about how the horns stay on, but later states that he doesn't think it really matters if they are false horns, but the magic of the animal.) He tells a story of a horse that ran off during a photo shoot, and ended up near a road. At that moment, a schoolbus full of children drove by, and then stopped. All the kids and the bus driver watched in amazement, thinking it was really a unicorn. Vavra and his assistants hid in the bushes, quite enjoying themselves. This book is a wonderful collection on beautiful photographs and the poems and quotes used describe the feelings of those photos. If you love the lure of the unicorn, the beauty of horses, or just great photographs, then buy this book.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unicorns I Have Known, May 10, 2000

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paola marinangeli - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unicorns I Have Known (Hardcover)

This is a book to be kept as a ''treasure'' amongst all books in anyone library. It's a fascinating book non only for ''horse lover'' (Robert Vavra is very well known by horse enthusiast worldwide) this is a book that can fascinate anyone in love with BEAUTY, ART, and POETRY. All photos are surrounded by a magical athmosphere and they are enriched and completed by beautiful literary quotations. You start dreaming from the first page of the book till the very last one and when you are at the end of your reading, believe me! You will start to BELIEVE that UNICORN DOES REALLY EXIST!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brought back the passion with which I believed as a child, October 25, 2000

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"raspberry-swirl" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unicorns I Have Known (Hardcover)

I'm a True Believer of Unicorns. As a Unicorn Fanatical child I even entertained notions I might be one. As an adult, I can't bring myself to DISbelieve in them. They are, to me, the epiphany of the beauty and magik and perfection the world has to offer - they are the embodiment of it. And yet - and yet - it is hard to find a modern representation of them which doesn't overdo the glitter and the rainbows, attribute human characteristics and sloppy sentimentality to the Beasts. Sick of the tacky, trendy new-age representations of Unicorns in the world today, Vavra's book was a blessing when I received it as a Christmas gift last year. Beautiful, glorious, heart warming, faith-inspiring pictures of Unicorns in their natural habitats, free from unncessary sparkles and glittery adornment, wild and Free as all Unicorns Should Be. Accompanied by Unicorn text from a multitude of sources, from thousands of years ago to the very present. And always, the encouragement to BELIEVE. Oh I do believe! This book is a perfect gift for anyone who feel the magik of the Unicorn, young and old alike. It will fill your heart with hope and faith and that perfect wonder which comes over us when our imaginations have been stirred...

My heart felt as though it would break upon reading then, at this page, Vavra talking about such details as how they kept the horns stuck on the horses :( Then it occured to me...

Maybe he just wants us to THINK they were really horses, so that noone tries to hunt them down...to protect them and keep them sacred. To keep them Free.