The Age of the Horse

A “superb” account of the enduring connection between humans and horses—“Full of the sort of details that get edited out of more traditional histories” ( The Economist ). Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth—and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. It has sustained us as a source of food, an industrial and agricultural machine, a comrade in arms, a symbol of wealth, power, and the wild.