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by Walter Farley (Author)
"The most famous fictional horse of the century" (The New York Times) discovers the call of the wild in this timeless classic about the unbreakable bond we share with our beloved animals.
"Knowing the crash was coming, Alec pushed against the door to provide an escape." After the Black attacks and nearly kills another horse, Alec Ramsay decides that maybe some freedom will help calm the wild stallion. He decides to take the Black to a huge ranch out west. But when their plane crashes, Alec and the Black are separated. Alone in the desert, the Black joins a wild herd. The accident has left Alec with amnesia, and he doesn't even know he should be looking for his horse. Will they ever find each other again? It has been more than seventy-five years since the first Black Stallion adventure was published, and it is still literature's most enduring friendship between a boy and his horse. Follow Alec and the Black on all of their adventures:The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion Returns
The Black Stallion's Ghost
...and many more!
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After the Black attacks another horse, Alec realizes that the once-wild horse needs more space and freedom, so they head out west to a huge ranch. But a terrible accident separates the two, leaving Alec with amnesia and the Black alone to reclaim the wild life to which he was born. As the Black struggles to survive, and as Alec struggles to remember who he is and his connection to the magnificent stallion in the canyon, a gripping adventure story unfolds.
Author Biography
Walter Farley's first book, The Black Stallion, was an instant hit when it appeared in 1941. Mr. Farley went on to write thirty-three other enormously popular books about the Black Stallion and other horses which were published in more than twenty countries. He died in 1989, shortly before the publication of his last novel, The Young Black Stallion, written with his son Steven.
