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Sheep - The remarkable story of the humble animal that built the modern world. (Paperback)
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Sheep - The remarkable story of the humble animal that built the modern world. (Paperback)
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Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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What was the most important step in civilization? Alan Butler's
answer is that it was when we began capturing wild sheep,
domesticating and breeding them. Sheep were the mainstay of ancient
cultures, by far the most important of the domesticated animals.
Able to survive almost anywhere, over-wintering successfully, they
provided not just milk, meat and skin, but warm clothing. This is
why so many of the earliest gods and their myths are sheep related,
from the Egyptian Ra (ram) to the later Christian Lamb of God. But
sheep have not only sustained us for thousands of years. Sheep
farming also underpinned the growth of European nation states,
international trade and modern economies. In effect sheep built the
modern world. The demands of the woollen textile industry both
drove and financed the Industrial Revolution. The British Empire
was founded on wool. The space needed for sheep drove millions off
the land, many of whom took them to Australasia and the Americas.
With over a billion sheep in the world today the humanity-sheep
relationship represents the most successful example of mammalian
symbiosis on the planet. The story of the sheep is the story of
humanity, a surprisingly exciting and gripping tale that deserves
to be told. Spanning a vast period of time, it includes some of the
most famous names that have been left to us by history, and many
that deserve to better recognised.
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