The Animal's Companion - People and their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story

A fascinating, heart-warming, and often humorous historical and cultural exploration of our universal human need for the companionship of animals, from prehistoric time to the present.

About the author

Jacky Colliss Harvey is a writer and editor. She studied English at Cambridge University and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has worked in museum publishing for the last 20 years and is a commentator and reviewer who speaks in both the UK and abroad on the arts and popular culture. She divides her time between London and New York. Her last book was Red: A History of the Redhead.

Summary

A fascinating, heart-warming, and often humorous historical and cultural exploration of our universal human need for the companionship of animals, from prehistoric time to the present.

Foreword

A fascinating, heart-warming, and often humorous historical and cultural exploration of our universal human need for the companionship of animals, from prehistoric time to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Jacky Colliss Harvey, Harvey Jacky Colliss
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2020
• EAN: 9781911630753
• ISBN: 978-1-911630-75-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: 2 x 16pp colour plates
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; PETS / Cats / General, PETS / Dogs / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PETS / Horses, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural history, Dogs as pets, Social and cultural anthropology, Cats as pets, Domestic animals & pets, Horses and ponies: general interest