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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Anthropologist and equestrian expert Susanna Forrest presents a singular, sweeping panorama of the horse's prominent role across time and in societies around the world. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdotes, Forrest illustrates how our evolution has coincided with that of horses. Unique, passionate, and insightful, this book investigates the complexities of human and horse coexistence, brilliantly revealing the...
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ten species that changed our world! For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for survival. They were hunter-gatherers, consummate foraging experts, but taking the world as they found it. Then a revolution occurred - our ancestors' interaction with other species changed. They began to tame them. The human population boomed; civilisation began. In this book, Alice Roberts uncovers the amazing deep history...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Until the popularization of the family car, horses and humans lived, worked, and played side by side. With the invention of the wheel, saddle, bit, and bridle; horses pulled far-flung lands closer together at the speed of a gallop. Trade, agriculture, exploration, and war--none of these would have been possible in the same way without horses. In dazzling spreads packed with maps, sidebars, and other hidden gems, Jennifer Thermes tackles the history...
Publisher
Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This is the unexpected story of far-flung lands coming together in war and in peace, influencing one another through the living history written on the backs of the Arabian horse. Filmed on location with rare archival footage and photographs previously lost to history, Path to Glory tells the glorious, triumphant tale of Poland's horses, coming full circle from desert sands to the hallowed halls of Europe. Enduring decades of world war, upheaval,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
Author
Publisher
Quid Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The 50 animals include the horse, dog, rat, whale, reindeer, beaver, flea, leech, dodo, falcon, oyster and shark. These creatures, great and small, have played central roles in the evolution of humankind, but they have remained at the periphery of our understanding of history. Whether it is an advancement in scientific knowledge, a trade war, disease and death, battles won and lost, or encounters with explorers in unknown lands, these animals have...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the scientific discovery, conservation, and current understandings of giant pandas to trace their story and reveal how the species reflects changing attitudes toward the natural world and contributes to China's rise to a super-power.
Publisher
MagicPlay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Few places on earth impose greater survival challenges and the conflict between climate and life than Alaska. Despite harsh conditions, life in Alaska always finds a way to endure. Voyage into the last great frontier where nature enchants the eye with magnificient spectacles. Witness the spirit of the wild in the thundering stampede of the caribou, the beauty of the polar bear, the stealthful, deadly hunt of the wolf pack and the majesty and resiliency...
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