- Hardcover: 332 pages
- Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books (Nov 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1570761345
- ISBN-13: 978-1570761348
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #541,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A personal memoir chronicling an American woman's intense year in Germany studying with the great dressage master Walter Christensen.
About the Author
Dressage rider Priscilla Endicott lives in Harvard, Massachusetts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Training in Germany!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Taking Up the Reins: A Year in Germany with a Dressage Master (Hardcover)
Priscilla Endicott did what many people only dream about. She ventured to Germany for a year to train with master trainer, Walter Christensen. The ups and downs of the year were clearly explained and the ups always conquered the downs. The routine of teh stable was like nothing I have ever seen or read about before. And Priscilla came back to America with an experience that she will never forget. I got the book as a gift and could not stop reading it! I have loaned it out to my horse friends and they have all loved it! It is a must read for all dressage riders. It will make you more determined than ever to get to Germany and train with the best in the world!
5.0 out of 5 stars
I Wish I Could...,
By Lynne Holt "Lynne" (St. Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taking Up the Reins: A Year in Germany with a Dressage Master (Hardcover)
If wishes were horses (and for many of us, they so often are), then just about any passionate dressage rider would want to follow in Priscilla Endicott's adventure. She clearly chronicles what it is like to enter into a relationship with a wonderful horse, and then to trust her mentor, Walter Christiansen, with that relationship far from home. She submits herself and her horse to the regimen so often looked upon with envy and awe by American riders...German dressage training. She takes us from the barn she comes to call home for a year to visits with the great Herbert Rehbein; and from Christine Steuckelberger and her trainer, Georg Wahl. Mainly, though, she takes us deeper into her growth as a rider and as a person, and into those extraordinary way horses and dressage teach us about life.It is a wonderful read first from the standpoint of horses and the art of dressage, but it also speaks of the courage to leave your own country to learn from another culture. I loved this book.
3.0 out of 5 stars
satisfied curiosity,
By kent c. gilmore (Paso Robles, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taking Up the Reins: A Year in Germany with a Dressage Master (Hardcover)
I find the book to be well written and well organized. A facinating revelation for many serious riders who have always wanted to know what it would be like to take this adventure. A void has been filled at longlast. Golden Hills Press
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