Dawn Horse: Four Horse Tales Through Time

What can be remembered through time? The scent of sage? The brush of the breeze? The dull sweat smell of the two-legs? Grahame Baker-Smith explores the history and evolution of horse through an astounding picture book/ graphic novel, Dawn Horse: Four Horse Tales Through Time. What of the horses’ earliest form? In the age of dinosaurs, where birds swooped and hunted? Then again, through the age of mammals, where this creature was no bigger than a dog, to the ‘swift, unfettered plains’ with its ‘bewildering variety of horses’? Yet now? What of those creatures changed forever by the two-legs? To Cheltenham Gold Cup, to longing for the touch of Ella, for example? This is a breathtaking project, a mighty book to read but evidently one of such passion, skill, originality and research. Bookwagon is astounded by Dawn Horse: Four Horse Tales Through Time. We recommend this wonderful book as one to treasure.