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001			on1227836933
003			OCoLC
005			20211102150437.0
008			201216s2021 nyua 001 0beng
010			_a 2020055047
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019			_a1262789222 _a1274134766
020			_a9781101871959 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1101871954 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1227836933 _z(OCoLC)1262789222 _z(OCoLC)1274134766
042			_apcc
043			_an-us-nj
092			_a636.132 _bB821
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBranigan, Cynthia A., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe last diving horse in America : _brescuing Gamal and other animals -- lessons in living and loving / _cCynthia Branigan.
263			_a2109
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2021]
300			_a274 pages ; _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_a"It was the signature attraction of Atlantic City's Steel Pier from the 1930s to the 1970s, the golden age of "America's Favorite Playground"--Doc Carver's High Diving Horses. Four times a day, seven days a week, a trained horse wearing only a harness ran up a ramp; a diving girl jumped on its back, and both sailed forty feet through the air, plunging into a ten foot deep tank of water. Decades later, after cries of animal abuse, and changing times, the act was finally shuttered and the very Last Atlantic City Steel Pier Diving Horse was on the auction block, with the author on a rescue mission. And $2,600 later, Gamal, gleaming coated, commanding, was hers: she who knew almost nothing about horses. Cynthia Branigan tells the story of how horse and new owner, come to know and educate and trust one another; teaching each other important lessons of living and loving. Branigan writes of the history of diving horses and how rescuing and caring for Gamal led her to save other animals, at first as company for Gamal--burros, and others, and then finally, saving a 10 year-old retired Greyhound, nearly broken in spirit, who, with Gamal, came back to his happy self, and opened up for the author a new and purposeful world"-- _cProvided by publisher.
630	0	0	_aThoroughbred _vBiography.
650		0	_aHorse adoption.
650		0	_aAnimal rescue. _9114200
650		0	_aHuman-animal relationships. _985860
650		0	_aSeaside resorts _zNew Jersey _zAtlantic City _xHistory _y20th century.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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