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Dog (Paperback)
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Dog (Paperback)
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Loot Price R403
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The story of the canine has been fundamentally entwined with that
of humanity since the earliest times, and this ancient and
fascinating story is told in Susan McHugh's Dog, now available in
B-format. The book unravels the debate about whether dogs are
descended from wolves, and moves on to deal with canines in
mythology, religion and health, dog cults in ancient and medieval
civilizations as disparate as Alaska, Greece, Peru and Persia, and
traces correspondences between the histories of dogs in the Far
East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Dog also examines the
relatively recent phenomenon of dog breeding and the invention of
species, as well as the canine's role in science fact and fiction;
from Laika, the first astronaut, and Pavlov's famous conditioned
dogs, through to science fiction novels and cult films such as A
Boy and his Dog. Susan McHugh shows how dogs today contribute to
human lives in a huge number of ways, not only as pets and guide
dogs but also as sources of food in Asia, entertainment workers,
and scientific and religious objects. Dog reveals how we have
shaped these animals over the millennia, and in turn, how dogs have
shaped us.
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