A great new book

For the past several years when asked to recommend a first book for someone just beginning to learn natural horsemanship I have never hesitated to recommend "The Revolution in Horsemanship." It still is a great book and should be required reading for those who are just learning to practice natural horsemanship. However, for the new horse owner and for the long time horse owner who is seeking to be freed from the bounds of "common knowledge", I cannot think of anything better than Joe Camp's "Soul of a Horse: Life's Lessons from the Herd."
Joe's book intertwines two important themes, natural horsemanship and natural horse care. Best of all, he shows how he learned both as a beginning horseman. In fact, this is the first mainstream book that I have come across that endorses natural horse care in such clear terms.
Woven into the narrative of his personal experiences in seeking to understand the horse's mind, is a series of fictional vignettes about wild horses. In those sections he gives a brief discussion of the Shacklefords, a wild herd of mustangs on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. While his historical information may be a bit suspect, the enduring truths about the nature of the horse and the possibility of developing a real relationship with a horse are not.
Put this book very high on your Christmas list.