After Columbus: The Horse's Return to America

by Herman J. Viola

Book Overview

Discusses the reintroduction of the horse by Columbus, after its having been extinct in North America for 8500 years, and how that animal changed forever the lives of North Americans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 092448361X
• ISBN13: 9780924483615
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Soundprints
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

An informed and accurate text, the other reviewer is wrong

Don't listen to the guy who gave this book only one star. The research carried out by the author is accurate and correct. Columbus did in fact re-introduce the horse (inadvertently)to North America. If you're really that curious about it all then read 'The Nature of Horses'. I forget the name of the author but it is a first-class scientific account of the evolution of the horse and its escape from extinction by domestication (yes it's true, if we didn't enjoy giddy-upping so much on the backs of horses or getting them to pull stuff there would be no more of the majestic creatures around!). What the previous reviewer mistook as propaganda is actually the product of sound archaeology and zoology. There you have it, straight from the horses...