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Scott Spencer (born September 1, 1945) is an American author who has written fourteen novels. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie Father Hood . Two of Spencer's novels, Endless Love and Waking the Dead , have been adapted into films.
This popularity of jousting in the South is sometimes connected to the popularity of Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, [78] which was widely read in the American South. [ 79 ] The first recorded tournament in American happened in 1840, 20 years after Ivanhoe 's publication, at the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs resort.
Modern-day Olympic equestrian events are rooted in cavalry skills and classical horsemanship, [5] and through 1948, competition was restricted to active-duty officers on military horses. [6] Only after 1952, as mechanization of warfare reduced the number of military riders, were civilian riders allowed to compete.
Scott Spencer may refer to: Scott Spencer (writer) (born 1945), American writer; Scott Spencer (footballer) (born 1989), English footballer
• Horsemanship: a complete book on training the horse and its rider 1956 (translation of the above) German [7] [8] [9] Nuno Oliveira (1925–1989) Haute ećole: forty-three photographs of horses taught and mounted by Nuno Oliviera London: J.A. Allen 1965 • Réflexions sur l'art équestre. Traduit du portugais par René Bacharach [1965]
The Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic was organized by balloonist Scott Spencer and began in 1991, featuring ten balloons. The balloon classic was part of the Boise River Festival, and both events occurred together until 2002 when the Boise River Festival was discontinued.
Kakutani also said the first-person narration Spencer mastered in Endless Love, was less successful in Waking the Dead and occasionally "tend[s] to come across as simple-minded or phony digressions". [3] Paul Gray, of Time Magazine, said the Pierce character was too unlikeable, citing his "overweening self-pity (and) penchant for purple prose." [1]
In Antwerp he lived in the Rubenshuis (the house where the painter Peter Paul Rubens had lived from 1610 till his death in 1640) [13] and established his famous riding-school, exercised "the art of manège" (High School riding), and published his first work on horsemanship, Méthode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux in 1658.