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SHE
FLIES WITHOUT WINGS
How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul
by Mary D.
Midkiff
To
be Published as a Delacorte Press Hardcover on April 17, 2001
© Bill Cripe
"This is an
absolutely beautiful book by a truly gifted story teller. Lyrical and
compelling, Midkiff's prose speaks to the depth of a woman's soul. Midkiff
truly captures the mystery of women and horses in stories that ring
with beauty and spirit. I believe that stories may really be the only
way to capture the magic that transpires between women and horses. Everything
else, beyond the experience itself, pales in comparison."
-Susan Chernak
McElroy, The New York Times bestselling author of Animals
as Teachers & Healers
"Mary Midkiff
should never ride faster than her Guardian Angel can fly--and apparently
she hasn't, hence this delightful book."
-Rita Mae Brown
"A horse is
the only animal that literally takes us up off our feet and carries
us to places we want
to go while giving us a spiritual boost."
-Mary D. Midkiff
from SHE FLIES WITHOUT WINGS
There are more than
one million girls and women actively involved in horse-related activities
in the U.S. and millions more who dream about horses or long to return
to the horse-filled days of their youth. In her new book, SHE FLIES
WITHOUT WINGS: How Horses Touch A Woman's Soul, to be published
as a Delacorte Press Hardcover on April 17, 2001, Mary D. Midkiff, an
internationally recognized horsewoman, examines the profound relationship
between women and horses, using her own memoir, other women's experiences,
and stories from literature and myth.
Midkiff is passionate
about horses. She has lived and breathed horses her entire life. Through
her popular fitness program for female riders, Women & Horses™,
she has personally experienced a horse's ability to transform the lives
of women in powerful ways and she shares what she has felt and learned
in SHE FLIES WITHOUT WINGS. She explores how horses and horse
imagery can become a vehicle of health, happiness, empowerment and freedom
for girls, women, at-risk kids, the disabled and the elderly.
Through women's
deeply personal stories, Midkiff reveals how horses enrich women's lives
and connect us to nature. "For thousands of years," she says,
"the deep kinship between women and horses has connected us to
our most intimate feelings of delight, helped us learn to solve problems,
and set our creativity free."
From the poetry
of Geoffrey Chaucer to the compelling fiction of Jane Austen to folktales
from around the world, SHE FLIES WITHOUT WINGS draws from great
literature and myth to encompass a broad spectrum of beliefs and perspectives.
Filled with the
moving lessons of sensuality, commitment, power, nurturance, and spirituality
(lessons women riders have known for centuries) and written with a loving
hand by an expert equestrian, SHE FLIES WITHOUT WINGS is an eloquent
homage to a pairing that enlivened history, inspired literature, and
continues to enchant us all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary D. Midkiff
founded Equestrian Resources, Inc., a firm that promotes horse activities.
She is also the creator of Women and Horses™, a fitness program,
and the author of Fitness, Performance, and the Female Equestrian.
She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
SHE
FLIES WITHOUT WINGS
How Horses Touch A Woman's Soul
By Mary D. Midkiff
A Delacorte Press Hardcover
Publication Date: April 17, 2001
0-385-33499-0/$23.95/256 Pages
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