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Summary: SHOW OFF!
Review: In this book, noted California "horse whisperer" Monty Roberts chronicles how he uses his "Join Up" method of horse gentling on a mustang in the wild. Roberts relates how he began studying communication among horses as a young boy and eventually used that information to begin working with the animals. Roberts, along with photographer Christopher Dydyk, creates a beautiful chronicle of how the horse he calls Shy Boy comes to trust people and become a valuable part of ranch life. The climax of the story is when Roberts releases Shy Boy to the free-range herd where the horse had been living, to see how well the "Join Up" method has worked ... and Shy Boy comes home. This is a beautiful book for anyone who loves horses and believes that gentleness and understanding are the key to relating to both animals and humans.
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Summary: Beautiful Pictorial of Relationship between Man & Horse
Review: In this book, noted California "horse whisperer" Monty Roberts chronicles how he uses his "Join Up" method of horse gentling on a mustang in the wild. Roberts relates how he began studying communication among horses as a young boy and eventually used that information to begin working with the animals. Roberts, along with photographer Christopher Dydyk, creates a beautiful chronicle of how the horse he calls Shy Boy comes to trust people and become a valuable part of ranch life. The climax of the story is when Roberts releases Shy Boy to the free-range herd where the horse had been living, to see how well the "Join Up" method has worked ... and Shy Boy comes home. This is a beautiful book for anyone who loves horses and believes that gentleness and understanding are the key to relating to both animals and humans.
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Summary: The Validation For Love
Review: Love is the force that can literally move mountains and/or tame horses as related in this book filled with page after page of pictures. This story is not as compelling as "The Man Who Listens To Horses" but still packs a punch as to the author's methods and concern for wild horses and their protection.
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Summary: I definitely will NOT recommend this book to anyone.
Review: Monty Roberts' work has been carefully researched in regard to his first book, "The Man Who Listens to Horses". The findings from many independent sources, including "Time Magazine", "The New York Times", "The Philadelphia Inquirer", "The San Francisco Examiner", "Horse & Rider Magazine", and "The London Daily Mail", have found much of Monty Roberts' "biographical" material to be false and written largely for dramatic effect.The new book, while beautifully presented with nice photographs, is largely damage-control and very defensive, trying to patch up the many descrepancies and untruths included in his first book - both the English and the U.S. versions. The mustang (even in Monty Roberts' own vividly descriptive words in the English edition of "The Man Who Listens to Horses") was chased unmercifully for hour after hour for some 30 hours, on horseback and by helicopter, with concern only for Monty's safety. The belated claim in the new book, that the horse had hay and water and rest along the way, doesn't fit in with the dramatic tale of the unrelenting pace of the chase. Obviously, the whole concept of chasing this unconditioned little horse until he was tired enough to be approached and caught, does not fit in with the gentle communication and trust between horse and human that Monty Roberts espouses. This book is a waste of time and money.
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Summary: The Best
Review: Oh my god! It was better than his first book. I had already seen the documentary, but the book was even better. Keep up the good work!
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Summary: Powerful yet strong monty reaches into horse's lives.
Review: Powerful,strong,understanding,Monty fits in this discripition perfectly.Monty reaches deep inside the souls and hearts of the horses he "starts" pulling out their true emotions for humans.He then turns an unpredictable and wild horse,Shy Boy into a gentle ranch horse,and lets Shy Boy choose his destiny.To maintain a violence free start for Shy Boy he must never raise his hand or even his voice.Creating a trust using Equus,a language that the horse has created. The beautiful photographs of this book capture the spirit and elegance of the mustang.This book will go deep inside you and bring out the softness in each and every one of us.Monty's touching experience between mustang and human will send a cold shiver down your spine. A truly remarkable story. I recomend this book to any horse enthusiast or not.
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Summary: Powerful yet strong monty reaches into horse's lives.
Review: Powerful,strong,understanding,Monty fits in this discripition perfectly.Monty reaches deep inside the souls and hearts of the horses he "starts" pulling out their true emotions for humans.He then turns an unpredictable and wild horse,Shy Boy into a gentle ranch horse,and lets Shy Boy choose his destiny.To maintain a violence free start for Shy Boy he must never raise his hand or even his voice.Creating a trust using Equus,a language that the horse has created. The beautiful photographs of this book capture the spirit and elegance of the mustang.This book will go deep inside you and bring out the softness in each and every one of us.Monty's touching experience between mustang and human will send a cold shiver down your spine. A truly remarkable story. I recomend this book to any horse enthusiast or not.
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Summary: HORSE FANS, READ THIS BOOK!!!
Review: Shy Boy is a book about a horse that was brought in from the wild by means of join-up, a way of communicating with wild horses using there own body language. The author explains about how to communicate with horses using their own language which he calls equis. I highly recommend this book if you would like to learn more about horses in their own "home field", or if you like a good story. It made me sorry to finish it. Truly I believe anyone who has even the slightest interest in horses should strongly consider this book. It is an inspirational book for horsemen and women of all ages. The pages are full of beautiful pictures of the mustangs in their own home. Please read this book next time you get a chance. It is definitely worth reading.
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Summary: "Shy Boy" may want to change his name to "Tired Boy"
Review: Sure, Monty Roberts was able to get a wild mustang to surrender himself willingly after pursuing him for howevermany days and nights. Pretty much anyone with an understanding of roundpen can see how that might happen, although the question remains why bother that poor horse - he was a wild mustang minding his own business. Monty missed the shoetoss peg with horses, but seems to have gotten it right with people. He has taken his observations of horse behaviors and applied them to building human realtionships. How's that for thinking outside the round pen? Way to go Monty!
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Summary: A TOUCHING READING
Review: The author of bestselling "The Man Who Listens To Horses"reprises his relationship with "Shy Boy," a wild mustang he acclimated.
In succinct yet powerful prose the author relates his first encounter with the horse during an exciting ride through the rugged Nevada desert. Well documented in a PBS series several years ago, Roberts' unique approach to gentling horses is a decidedly humane approach involving the imitation of an equine body language.
Eventually, Roberts offers his mustang a choice - does he want to be free again and run back to the wilderness? The answer to that questions will bring a tear to even the most jaundiced eye.
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