HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Branigan, Cynthia A., author.     Subjects     Thoroughbred horse -- New Jersey -- Biography.     Horse adoption.     Animal rescue.     Human-animal relationships.     Seaside resorts -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Branigan, Cynthia A., author.       by title:      The last diving hors...         MARC Display

The last diving horse in America : rescuing Gamal and other animals-- lessons in living and loving / Cynthia A. Branigan. by Branigan, Cynthia A., author. New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] Subjects Thoroughbred horse -- New Jersey -- Biography.   Horse adoption.   Animal rescue.   Human-animal relationships.   Seaside resorts -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781101871959 (hardcover) : 1101871954 (hardcover) : Description:  274 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "It was the signature attraction of Atlantic City's Steel Pier from the 1930s to the 1970s, the golden age of "America's Favorite Playground"--Doc Carver's High Diving Horses. Four times a day, seven days a week, a trained horse wearing only a harness ran up a ramp; a diving girl jumped on its back, and both sailed forty feet through the air, plunging into a ten foot deep tank of water. Decades later, after cries of animal abuse, and changing times, the act was finally shuttered and the very Last Atlantic City Steel Pier Diving Horse was on the auction block, with the author on a rescue mission. And $2,600 later, Gamal, gleaming coated, commanding, was hers: she who knew almost nothing about horses. Cynthia Branigan tells the story of how horse and new owner, come to know and educate and trust one another; teaching each other important lessons of living and loving. Branigan writes of the history of diving horses and how rescuing and caring for Gamal led her to save other animals, at first as company for Gamal--burros, and others, and then finally, saving a 10 year-old retired Greyhound, nearly broken in spirit, who, with Gamal, came back to his happy self, and opened up for the author a new and purposeful world"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 636.13209 Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mountain View P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 636.13209 Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.0

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.