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Pests
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains© 2022 Bethany Brookshire368 pages Humans believe in and have attempted to create, a very orderly world. There are our cities and homes, where the only animals that belong are those there for our amusement, … Continue reading
On horses, septic tanks, and roving Spainards
I began the year by returning to a favorite subject of mine: horses! The Equine Legacy is a history of not only horses in America, but donkeys and mules, from the Age of Discovery to just after the Great War. … Continue reading
The Speckled Beauty
The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and his People© 2021 Rick Bragg256 pages There’s no bond like that between a boy and his dog – except, maybe, that of an old man and his dog. Rick Bragg never meant to adopt “Speck”, the mangy and … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Alabama, animal domestication, humor, Rick Bragg, Southern Literature
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From the horses’ mouth: Black Beauty and Traveller
This past week I’ve read two novels which feature a horse as the narrator, and I thought it might be fun to consider them together. The first, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, is something of a re-read for me: I … Continue reading
COVID Reviews #3: Romans, Dogs, and Saudis
I don’t know if anyone misses my usual chatty, sometimes florid reviews, but they’re impossible to do on a phone. More mini-reviews it is! Continuing my onslaught of the TBR pile, I finished Lives of Famous Romans, by Olivia Coolridge. … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged animal domestication, Arabia, Central Asia, history, Islam, Middle East, Persia-Iran, Rome
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Of love languages, cunning critters, epic battles, and cows
Time for some mini-reviews! Read but not reviewed in the last week or so have been: The Heart of the 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans de Waal Shiloh: A … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews, science
Tagged animal domestication, Frans de Waal, historical fiction, primates, science, skills-and-readiness
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Of Neanderthals and dogs and extinction level events
Time for science short rounds! Last week I read The Invaders, a much-anticipated work about how dogs gave humans a competitive edge over their neanderthal cousins. This brief book posits that human beings function like invasive species, and after establishing … Continue reading
TBR: And Then There was One
Dear readers, we approach the end for the To be Read Takedown Challenge! Richard Francis’ Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World proved disappointing, not because of the quality of content but the focus thereof. Although Domesticated sells itself as a … Continue reading
Posted in science
Tagged animal domestication, anthropology, biology, evolution, science, TBR Takedown Challenge
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White Fang
White Fang© 1906 Jack Londonpp. 1- 101, Tales of the North. “An’ right here I want to remark,’ Bill went on, ‘that that animal’s familiarity with camp-fires is suspicious an’ immoral.’‘It knows for certain more’n a self-respectin’ wolf ought to … Continue reading
Horses at Work
Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America© 2008 Ann Norton Greene322 pages The quintessential image of horses in American history is the cowboy, of rough men moving cattle in the wilderness on horseback. But follow the cattle, and their … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, American Civil War, animal domestication, energy, Gilded Age, history, transportation
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