Equitation: Learning and Teaching, by Froissard, Jean
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Equitation: Learning and Teaching, by Froissard, Jean. A.S. Barnes & Co.: South Brunswick, New Jersey, 1967. Edition: No indication of edition. Hardcover, 7.5 by 10.25 inches, 337 pages. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine; pictorial end papers. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Includes a brief bibliography and an index.

Condition: Very Good in a Good Plus jacket. Spine ends and corners bumped; very slightly shelf cocked. Jacket is rubbed with some chipping and fraying at spine ends and corners.

Contents: Publisher's note:

Here at last is a single volume in which every principle and problem of Training, Instruction, Equitation, Hippology, and Organization of School, Stables, and Activities is analyzed and discussed from the view-points of all three participants -- teacher, rider, and horse.

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Equitation: Learning and Teaching deals with equitation in internationally valid concepts and terms, in refreshing and enlightening contrast to most works of this type which, when dealing with concepts, hew too close to the local interest line....The author makes a bold attempt to fix the equestrian vocabulary for American riders so that in their increasing contacts with horsemen of other nations they will have an equestrian language in common with them, as these nations have had for hundreds of years among themselves.

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Equitation: Learning and Teaching is generously illustrated with diagrams, drawings, photographs, and reproductions of paintings and engravings...