![]() ![]() ![]() Dydyk began to take pictures at Roberts’s farm while he was in college. Shy Boy tells its story through a combination of Roberts’s words and Christopher Dydyk’s photographs. ![]() It started out to be a coffee table book. But when you’re telling a current story like the one I did in Shy Boy, it’s fun. There’s so much pressure on you to remember from so far back. "It was hard work doing an autobiography. Roberts spoke to BookPage recently and compared the experience of writing his first book to digging ditches. His second book, Shy Boy: The Horse That Came in from the Wild, chronicles his experience of using his join-up techniques with a mustang out in the open desert, and how that horse, later named Shy Boy, adjusted to a domesticated life. "I’m not a best-selling author, only a human being with a best-selling story," says Monty Roberts, whose 1997 autobiography The Man Who Listens to Horses has sold over three million copies worldwide and has been translated into 13 languages. ![]()
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