The book, The Man Who Listens to Horses, Monty’s autobiography, remained on the New York Times bestseller book list for 58 weeks, unheard of for a horse book, and changed forever our perception of the horse and human relationship. When Monty Roberts was thirteen years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch mustangs in the wild. What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life forever. The Man Who Listens to Horses reveals his deep love and understanding of horses. We learn how, through his relationship with various horses, he gradually developed the methods which enabled him to communicate in their own language: a silent language of gestures like signing for the deaf.