Book Quest - 'The Age of the Horse' by Susanna Forrest

I really like this book. To give context for how much I like it: I borrowed this from the library. I'm planning to buy my own copy so I can reference it in the future.

This book solved a problem I had for a long time, that I couldn't work out how to fix: I wanted to learn about the history of horses. Mostly for writing purposes, either for historical fiction or to crib worldbuilding ideas for fantasy fiction. But the thing is "the history of horses" is, uh, a rather large topic. I had no idea where to start. I wanted a broad overview, that gave me some ideas of for more specific searches. It didn't have to be comprehensive, or anything, but it had to be a starting point for the topic.

The Age of The Horse is a nice, broad starting point. It doesn't even try to be comprehensive, it's more of a sample platter of horse-y history. But it's a very delicious sample platter.

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