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Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse: Man and beast in an age of human warfare By Fra
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse: Man and beast in an age of human
- ISBN
- 9781846550881
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse: Man and Beast in an Age of Human Warfare
- Item Height
- 222 mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 459 g
- Item Width
- 144 mm
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Information
When you touch a Lipizzaner,' Frank Westerman was told as a child, 'you are touching history.' In Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse he explores the history of these unique creatures, an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses first bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the bloodlines of the studbook, he reconstructs the story of four generations of imperial steeds as they survive the fall of the Habsburg Empire, two world wars and the insane breeding experiments conducted under Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu. But what begins as a fairytale becomes a chronicle of the quest for racial purity. Carrying the reader across Europe, from imperial stables and stud farms to the controversial gene labs of today, Westerman asks, if animal breeders are so good at genetic engineering, why do attempts to perfect the human strain always end in tragedy? Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse, a unique and engrossing fusion of history and travel writing, is a modern fable in which the pure-blood horse ends up revealing man's own shortcomings.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9781846550881
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114850375
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse: Man and Beast in an Age of Human Warfare
Publication Year
2012
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
222 mm
Item Weight
459 g
Item Width
144 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Topic
Travel Writing
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