It was in the forests around the cities of Berlin and Potsdam, where I had so many wonderful years with my horse Poseidon. Whenever I talked about these memories full of joy, people asked enthusiastically: "You should write them all down - we would also like to read these stories!" For those people I wrote this book. A sensitive book about the extraordinary friendship between two men, one of them is a horse. 28 deeply felt, sometimes funny chapters with the most impressive shared experiences in the forests around the cities of Berlin and Potsdam. The horse talks to his friend and rider! Contents As A Foreword: Why Riding? 1 Snowman Or Horse 2 Riding Lessons 3 Tenor And Me 4 Wapiti 5 A Horse As A Gift 6 He Is Really Big! 7 Saddling Up 8 Dressage 9 Whithout A Whip 10 My Name Is Poseidon 11 Bananas, Dark Bread, And Carrots 12 The Gymnastic Woman 13 The Four Seasons 14 Fainting 15 The Fat Wet Mare 16 Fallen Off: 4x 17 Horse Whispering 18 The Carpet Exercise 19 The Unloved Rounds Around The Meadows 20 Swimming 21 Jumping Lessons 22 Traveling 23 A Horse Allergic To Hay 24 To The Railway Station - If Not Into The Forest 25 Knocked Out 26 We Got Lost! 27 Jointly At Risk 28 Farewell!

Ralf Johannes Radlanski is an anatomist, an orthodontist, a professor at Charité University Hospital of Berlin, and an enthusiastic rider. He is a guest professor in San Francisco (CA, USA), in Turku (Finland) and in Basle (Switzerland). Next to many scientific publications and textbooks, he is known as a scientist worldwide. Now he has written a book about is horse Poseidon.