Mark Derr: 2 books
A Dog's History of America
How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this revelatory history, Mark Derr looks at the ways in which we have used canines—as sled dogs and sheepdogs, hounds and Seeing Eye dogs, guard dogs, show dogs, and bomb-sniffing dogs—as he tracks changes in American culture and society. In A Dog’s History of America, Derr weaves a remarkable...
How the Dog Became the Dog
From Wolves to Our Best Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other. Both are...