Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse

'' "When you touch a Lipizzaner, you''re touching history," Westerman was once told. His elegant book offers fascinating proof'' Financial Times

Frank Westerman explores the history of Lipizzaners, an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the bloodlines of the stud book, he reconstructs the story of four generations of imperial...