Revised and updated in its second edition this is a comprehensive manual for enthusiastic amateurs, for students on estate management courses, and those professionally employed as gamekeepers.

All manner of equines helped build our roads, our villages, towns and cities. They were, for centuries, virtually the only means of getting ourselves and our goods from A to B. They became a part of our folklore and the subject of many an artist’s painting. They went to war, tilled the land and brought in the harvest, carried us in sporting activities and nowadays often facilitate our enjoyment in leisure activities. 'The Horse Lover’s Miscellany: Wit, Wisdom and Wonders' celebrates all this by including fascinating, amusing, quirky and practical information likely to be of interest to...