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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Domesticated animals
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
252 pages~5 hr 1 min read13 chapters$4.99
How did wild creatures become our partners in work and life? Shaler traces the long alliance, from the dog and the horse to flocks, herds, useful birds and insects, closing on the rights we owe the animals we have tamed. Thoughtful natural history with heart. Consider the creatures that agreed to live beside us.
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Inside this book
13 chapters
- 1DOMESTICATED ANIMALS THEIR RELATION TO MAN AND TO HIS ADVANCEMENT IN CIVILIZATION
- 2CONTENTS
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4DOMESTICATED ANIMALS
- 5INTRODUCTION
- 6THE DOG
- 7THE HORSE
- 8THE FLOCKS AND HERDS: BEASTS FOR BURDEN, FOOD, AND RAIMENT
- 9DOMESTICATED BIRDS
- 10USEFUL INSECTS
- 11THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS
- 12THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTICATION
- 13INDEX
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