Dog's Best Friend

Dog's Best Friend

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780226142807
Untertitel:
Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship
Genre:
Natur, Garten & Tiere
Autor:
Mark Derr
Herausgeber:
The University of Chicago Press
Anzahl Seiten:
401
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2004
ISBN:
978-0-226-14280-7

Autorentext
Mark Derr is the author of Some Kind of Paradise, a critically acclaimed social and environmental history of Florida; The Frontiersman: The Real Life and the Many Legends of Davy Crockett, and the forthcoming A Dog's History of America. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Natural History, Audubon, and the New York Times. He lives in Miami Beach.

Klappentext
A comprehensive, humane, and bemused tour of the dog-human relationship, "Dog's Best Friend" combines anecdote, research, and reportage to illuminate our complex rapport with our cherished canine companions. Tracking our national obsession with an animal that now outnumbers children in American households, Mark Derr chronicles the evolution of "the culture of the dog" from the prehistoric domestication of tamed wolves to the modern horrors of overbreeding and inbreeding.
Passionate about his subject and intent on sharing his zeal, Derr defends dogs with wit and flare, producing here a quirky, informative, and fitting tribute to our love affair with canines big and small.


Zusammenfassung
In 'Dog's Best Friend', Mark Derr provides an account of the close relationship between dogs and humans. His focus is on the cultural aspects of this relationship, in particular on the over breeding of dogs to satisfy the human ego, which he claims often undermines the mental and physical health of the dogs.


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