Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but no one really knows their story. Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland weaves the myth of their origin, a myth that follows one Norseman along the Silk Road to the steppes of Mongolia, and unfolds with a ghostly magic that transcends the borders between civilizations.

"Tolmie tells a tale of three cities, separated by oceans, lost to one another long ago: the first, the city of rituals, of ceremonies; the second, the city of words, of poetry; and the third, the city of the golden birds, of dreams. In their harbors stand the stone boatmen, pointing outward toward the unknown. Now the birds are fostering a newfound relationship of the three cities of the ancestors, and the voyages of the ship Aphelion and its crew...