Young Alec Ramsay first saw the Black Stallion when his ship docked at a small Arabian port on the Red Sea. The Black was a giant of a horse—all muscle, all power, all beauty. His mane swept in the wind like black flame. A white cloth was tied around his savage head, covering his eyes so that he could not see. He reared high into the air, and his front legs struck out viciously at the men who were trying to get him aboard ship.

Then Alec Ramsay heard him scream—and it was like nothing he had ever heard before. He suddenly realized that he was looking at the wildest of all wild creatures—a stallion unbroken, untamed!

And little did he dream that this mighty, black horse was destined to play an important part of his young life; that between them would grow a strange understanding that would lead them through untold dangers in their long journey to adventure in America. Nor would his wildest imagination tell him that he and his desert-born stallion would electrify and captivate an entire nation!

Boys of all ages will thrill to The Black Stallion because any one of them could have been Alec Ramsay. He's the typical American boy—full of fun and faults, full of vitality and courage.

From the dust jacket