The value of using horses for rapid deployment was not lost on kings of ancient times either.112 While donkeys were the original animal of transportation, horses quickly became favored by nobility because of their speed and maneuverability. This not only led to their popularity with the mighty, ...
I went to the Shetland twice, around 1994, to photograph, both times on assignment, badgering fish merchant agents to take me out to the ships on their speedboats when they visited to cut deals with Bulgarian skippers. Or another time I agreed with the Coast Guard to be used as ‘live ...