Horse Games

One man's search for the tribal horse games of Asia and Africa

Bob Thompson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2018
Merlin Unwin Books (Verlag)
978-1-910723-75-3 (ISBN)

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One man’s travels in search of the last remaining tribal horse games of Asia and Africa, the last vestiges of the skills of the war horse. Buzhashi horsemen in Afghanistan and Mongolia, mounted Oromo spearmen of Ethiopia, gilgit polo, cirit, tent-pegging and more from Burkina Faso to Cameroon….

From the buzkashi horsemen in Afghanistan and Mongolia, to the dancing horses of Mali and the mounted Oromo spearmen of Ethiopia, Bob Thompson has spent decades travelling, often by battered local buses, to the most difficult outreaches of the world to discover the last remaining tribal horse games of Asia and Africa.

He covers Gilgit polo, visits the Ethiopian national stud, watches cirit and tent-pegging, and his journey takes him to such exotic places as Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Iran and Pakistan.

Bob Thompson travels to some of the world’s most remote places to fulfil his passion for seeing, while they still remain, the last vestiges of the skills of the war horse.

Bob Thompson started riding at the age of six and he rode in his first point-to-point at sixteen. He was commissioned into The Life Guards (Household Cavalry) in 1966. He left the army to be the horse-coper for an expedition looking for the lost city of Firozkoh in central Afghanistan. While watching a game of buzkashi he was told that a banned ancient horse game was still played somewhere in eastern Turkey. That was the start of his lifelong quest to record the remaining tribal horse games around the world. When not travelling (although he also found time to race at Cheltenham!) he and his wife Sue farm in the Welsh Borders.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	7 Halftones, black and white; 110 Halftones, color
Verlagsort	Shropshire
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	820 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
ISBN-10	1-910723-75-4 / 1910723754
ISBN-13	978-1-910723-75-3 / 9781910723753
Zustand	Neuware