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We see them immortalized in the decorative arts in tribal folklore, literature, and ancient myth and even on the pages of the earliest medical texts, prescribed to treat everything from skin complaints to baldness to flagging libido. Over time, seahorses have surfaced in some unlikely places. A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong, and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome.