November 2013 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
In Zimbabwe white farmers are forced off their land, having to flee leaving almost everything behind – including their animals. As the Retzlaff family move across the country they take on many of the horses that distraught farmers ask them to care for till in the end they have over 300 – yet they can only save 104. Mandy Retzlaff’s extraordinary story of compassion for animals against a background of political uprising and ferment is a story of terrible loss but also incredible gain as the horses they care for become their passion – and salvation.
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Pat and Mandy Retzlaff enjoyed a hard but satisfying farming life in Zimbabwe. After their children, the couple's true pride and joy were their horses. But in early 2001, their lives were thrown into turmoil when armed members of President Robert Mugabe's War Veterans' Association began violently reclaiming farmlands owned by white Zimbabweans. Under the threat of death, they were forced to flee.
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Pat and Mandy Retzlaff enjoyed a hard but satisfying farming life in Zimbabwe. After their children, the couple's true pride and joy were their horses.
One Hundred and Four Horses features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Books of the Month, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
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One Hundred and Four Horses was written by Mandy Retzlaff and published by William Morrow & Company an imprint of HarperCollins
One Hundred and Four Horses has 288 pages
