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Traces the early life of the black stallion in the mountains of Arabia before he was captured and brought to the West. A prequel to the first book in the Black Stallion series.Tags
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This book was originally copyright in 1989. It appears that a Disney movie (live action) was made about 2003. The copy I have has an insert with a bunch of pictures. I have never seen the movie, but I am guessing the pictures inserted in this edition were all from the movie. Do NOT expect the story in the book to match anything you see in the pictures inserted in this edition.
That said, the story was actually pretty good. It dovetails up to the beginning of the first book, The Black Stallion.
That said, the story was actually pretty good. It dovetails up to the beginning of the first book, The Black Stallion.
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Walter Farley was born in Syracuse, New York on June 26, 1915. He began writing The Black Stallion when he was a student at Columbia University and completed it while working as an advertising copywriter in New York City. It was an immediate success when it was published in 1941. During World War II, he served in the army where he wrote the second show more book in the series, The Black Stallion Returns. After his discharge from the service in 1946, he became a full-time author. He wrote 20 novels in the Black Stallion series. His also wrote a fictionalized biography of America's greatest Thoroughbred, Man O'War. He died of heart failure on October 17, 1989 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Young Black Stallion
- Original title
- The Young Black Stallion
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Related movies
- The Young Black Stallion (2003 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and se... (show all)es thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." -Henry Beston, The Outermost House
- Dedication
- For Miranda, age one, and all the generations of readers past and all those to come
- First words
- The Black Stallion stood seventeen hands tall, his dark coat glistening with renewed health and shining in the light of Alec Ramsay's campfire.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But for now he was content to breathe the clean desert air and be with his horse.
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- English, French, German, Portuguese
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