The Man Who Listens to Horses

monty roberts ed sala

"It all dates from those summers alone in the high desert, me lying on my belly and watching wild horses with my binoculars for hours at a time. Straining to see in the moonlight, striving to fathom mustang ways, I knew instinctively I had chanced upon something important but could not know that it would shape my life. In 1948 I was a boy of thirteen learning the language of horses. . . ."

Genres nonfictionhorsesanimalsbiographymemoirautobiographybiography memoirbook clubnaturehistory

0 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1,1997

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: August 1, 1998 by Recorded Books, LLC
ISBN: 9780788722103
ASIN: 0788722107
Language: English

About the author

monty roberts

He wrote that by personally observing horses in the wild, he learned to "listen" to their non-verbal "language"; that when horses understood that they can trust you, they will decide to be with you. Roberts registered as his term for "hooking on", the phrase "Join~Up", in which a trainer negotiates with an untamed horse to form a voluntary relationship with him