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Sep 28, 2021 | ISBN 9781101871959 Pre-Order
Sep 28, 2021 | ISBN 9781101871966 Pre-Order
Sep 28, 2021 | 540 Minutes Pre-Order
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Sep 28, 2021 | ISBN 9781101871959
Sep 28, 2021 | ISBN 9781101871966
Sep 28, 2021 | ISBN 9780593456286
540 Minutes
The inspiring story of the rescue of the last diving horse in America, and how horse and animal rescuer were each profoundly transformed by the other. .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. The author, on a rescue mission for her employer, animal rights pioneer Cleveland Amory, and $2,600 later spent in a fierce auction, 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..
CYNTHIA BRANIGAN grew up in New Jersey and was educated at Franconia College and the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder of Make Peace With Animals, Inc., and pioneered the adoption of retired racing Greyhounds worldwide. She lives in New… More about Cynthia A. Branigan
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