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Brother Mendels Perfect Horse

Brother Mendels Perfect Horse

Frank Westerman / Sam Garrett

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2013
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Historia
ISBN:
9780099512776
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’ 'When you touch a Lipizzaner you’re touching history ' Westerman was once told. His elegant book offers fascinating proof’ Financial Times Frank Westerman explores the history of Lipizzaners an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the bloodlines of the stud book he reconstructs the story of four generations of imperial steed as they survive the fall of the Habsburg Empire two world wars and the insane breeding experiments conducted under Hitler Stalin and Ceausescu. But what begins as a fairytale becomes a chronicle of the quest for racial purity. Carrying the reader across Europe from imperial stables and stud farms to the controversial gene labs of today Westerman asks if animal breeders are so good at genetic engineering why do attempts to perfect the human strain always end in tragedy?

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