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Brother Mendel's perfect horse : man and beast in an age of human warfare

"'When you touch a Lipizzaner,' Frank Westerman was told as a child, 'you are touching history.' In "Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse" he explores the history of these unique creatures, an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses first bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the bloodlines of the studbook, he reconstructs the story of four generations of imperial steeds 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? Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse, a unique and engrossing fusion of history and travel writing, is a modern fable in which the pure-blood horse ends up revealing man's own shortcomings." --Alibris.com

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  • "Tragédie dvacátého století v osudech koně - lipicána"

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  • "Het Lippizaner paard vormt de rode draad in een persoonlijke zoektocht naar de ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van dit bij machthebbers geliefde dier."
  • ""'When you touch a Lipizzaner,' Frank Westerman was told as a child, 'you are touching history.' In "Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse" he explores the history of these unique creatures, an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses first bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the bloodlines of the studbook, he reconstructs the story of four generations of imperial steeds 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? Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse, a unique and engrossing fusion of history and travel writing, is a modern fable in which the pure-blood horse ends up revealing man's own shortcomings." --Alibris.com"@en

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  • "Narrations"
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  • "Vyprávění"
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  • "El destino de los caballos blancos : una historia diferente del siglo XX"@es
  • "Žival, nadžival"
  • "Žival, nadžival"@sl
  • "Das Schicksal der weißen Pferde : Eine andere Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts"
  • "Brother Mendel's perfect horse : man and beast in an age of human warfare"@en
  • "Das Schicksal der weißen Pferde Eine andere Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts"
  • "Dier, bovendier"
  • "El destino de los caballos blancos una historia diferente del siglo xx"
  • "Pura razza bianca"
  • "Pura razza bianca"@it
  • "Zvíře, nadzvíře : tragédie dvacátého století v osudech koně - lipicána"
  • "Zvíře, nadzvíře : tragédie dvacátého stolet ́v osudech koně-lipicána"
  • "Das Schicksal der weißen Pferde : eine andere Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts"

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