Dog's Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship - Hardcover

Derr, Mark

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9780805040630: Dog's Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship

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ISBN 10: 0805040633 ISBN 13: 9780805040630

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1997

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A tribute to the special relationship that exists between canines and humans explores the cultural and historical aspects of the twenty-thousand-year-old bond and celebrates the many contributions of dogs throughout the ages

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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.

About the Author:

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 forthcomingA 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.

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