Paolo Manili, a professional journalist living in Milan, has for more than thirty years been one of Italy's leading photo-reporters of horses and equestrian sports. He pioneered equestrian photojournalism in the specialised review Lo Sperone, the at Cavallo Magazine, and more recently at Cavallo Sport, of which he is one of the most distinguished contributors. He brought the horse to such glossy reviews as Polo International, Capital ans Gente Viaggi, and for a decade and a half he has written equestrain sports reviews for Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, Il Giorno and other leading newspapers.

Certain to inspire unbridled pleasure in horse lovers and nature-photography enthusiasts, this magnificent volume portrays our beloved equine friends in the rarely seen and increasingly endangered setting of the wild. Horses in the wild are symbols of freedom, exhilarating embodiments of the harmonic beauty of unharnessed movement. The two hundred aesthetically stunning photographs in this collection provide the increasingly rare opportunity to glimpse them in the evermore endangered setting of untrammeled nature. The book is the product of the patient work of a small band of dedicated photographers who tracked wild horses in the farthest reaches of the world, from Iceland to Namibia, the steppes of Mongolia to the American plains. A breathtaking contrast to the domesticated variety and those used for equestrian sports, the equines featured here include the Mustang, the steppe, the brumby, the crioulo, the iceland pony, the namibian, and the Maremmano.