Author: WRIGHT, MAURICE
Title: The Jeffery Method of Horse Handling
Description: Armidale, Australia: Maurice Wright, 1987. First Edition. Reprint; Hardcover. ISBN: 0731612574. B&W Illustrations; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches; xv, 92 pages; First edition from 1973; this is a 1975 reprint. SCARCE. Hard cover is brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Light rubbing, bumping to boards. DJ has rubbing, scuffing, bumping, some small closed tears along edges; in a mylar jacket. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w pictures. 'An old Australian technique that makes use of several behavioural principles, including the understanding of horse behaviour, the reinforcement for desired behaviour and the use of flight-distance principles. Significantly it is a technique that incorporates the advance and retreat method often attributed to the current wave of horse whisperers. Clearly, because the Jeffery Method employs considerable aversive stimuli...'. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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