Book Launch: Perfectly Themselves by Abby Letteri

Join Unity & Te Herenga Waka Press to celebrate a beautiful new book by Abby Letteri, on horses in the human world. The book will be launched by Damien Wilkins. Free event, all welcome. (Abby will also be at the IIML Writers on Mondays event on Monday 7th September; a free, hour-long author talk between her and fellow writer, Marty Smith.) About the book: When Abby first encountered free-living horses, she realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaining social bonds, moving together in synchrony, their communication constant and subtle. An immersive and transporting memoir, Perfectly Themselves offers intimate portraits of horses living freely in the company of their own kind, from Aotearoa to the Outer Hebrides, Iceland and Mongolia. Underpinning Letteri’s research is a question sparked by a 33,000-year-old carved horse that seems alive with vitality and ease: what did we once know about horses that we have forgotten?