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Dog's best friend : a brief history of an unbreakable bond / Simon Garfield.
Van Pelt Library SF422.5 .G37 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garfield, Simon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dogs--History.
- Dogs.
- Human-animal relationships--History.
- Human-animal relationships.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
- Summary:
- One of the first words we learn. Perhaps the best friend we'll have. An animal so much part of our lives that we speak to it like a child and spend small fortunes on its wellbeing and wardrobe. Dogs and humans: in the last 200 years no inter-species relationship has developed so fast nor come so far. Dogs accompany us in every walk of life, usually three times a day. How and why did this relationship begin? How has it changed over the centuries? And who's getting the upper hand? Dog's Best Friend investigates this unique bond by revisiting some of the most important milestones in our shared journey. It begins with the earliest visual evidence on ancient rock art, and ends at the laboratory that sequenced the first dog genome. En route we encounter the first Labradoodle in Australia, a misguidedly loyal Akita in Japan, an ill-fated Poodle trainer in the United States, and a hilariously disobedient Romanian rescue dog named Kratu at the Birmingham NEC. We will also meet Corgis and Dorgis at the Palace, the weightless mutniks of the Soviet space programme, a Dalmatian who impersonates Hitler, and an owner who claims his Border Collie can remember the names of more than a thousand soft toys.
- Contents:
- The dogness of dogs
- The indelible image
- How dogs began
- Fido thinks maybe
- What Darwin didn't know about dogs (was hardly worth knowing)
- Dogs will heal
- The smartest dogs on earth and beyond
- How we got to Jackshi-tzu
- How to win a rosette
- Dog story
- Through the hoops
- The art of floofiest
- Inglorious
- Born a dog, died a gentleman
- Discover dogs!
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781474610742
- 1474610749
- 9781474610735
- 1474610730
- OCLC:
- 1191799001
- Publisher Number:
- 99986845006
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