From the bestselling author of RED: A History of the Redhead
The Animal's Companion
Jacky Colliss Harvey's new book that shares the 26,000-year Love Story between people and their pets!
We Love Our Companions! Check out these patient pets modeling our limited edition bandanas!
Bird, shown here with her "I'd Rather Be Reading" bandana, has a penchant for her author/companion Jacky Colliss Harvey's books.
Cricket enjoyed the book so much he recommended it to Gizmo!
Gizmo would like to know who put a dog on this cover. Hmmm.
Meet Axel! You can't tear him away from a good book.
With some fave reading recommendations backing her up, Piper leads the bookclub chat.
People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story
by Jacky Colliss Harvey
A unique and compelling exploration of why humans need animal companions — from dogs and cats to horses, birds, and reptiles — through the eyes of a New York Times bestselling historical detective author.
In The Animal's Companion, the acclaimed social anthropologist and author of Red: A History of the Redhead turns her keen eye for cultural investigation toward uncovering why humans have such a strong desire to share everyday life with pets. It's a history that can be traced back to a cave in France where anthropologists discovered evidence of a boy and his dog taking a walk together — 26,000 years ago.
From those preserved foot and paw prints, Jacky Colliss Harvey draws on literary, artistic, and archaeological evidence to sweep readers through centuries and across continents to examine how our relationships with our pets have developed, but also stayed very much the same. Through delightful stories of the most famous, endearing, and sometimes eccentric pet owners throughout history, Colliss Harvey examines the when, the how, and the why of our connection to the animals we take into our lives, and suggests fascinating new insights into one of the most long-standing of all human love affairs.
Genre: Nonfiction / Pets / Essays & Narratives
On Sale: April 2nd 2019
Meet The Author: Jacky Colliss Harvey
Jacky Colliss Harvey is a writer and editor. She studied English at Cambridge University and art history at the Courtauld Institute. She has worked in museum publishing for the past 20 years and is a commentator and reviewer who speaks in both the U.K. and abroad on the arts and their relation to popular culture. Her red hair has also found her an alternative career as a life model and a film extra playing everything from a society lady in Atonement to a Parisian whore in Bel-Ami. She is the author of My Life As A Redhead: A Journal and the forthcoming book The Animal's Companion. She splits her time between New York and London.
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