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Pets, and our ever-changing interactions with them, have gone an indelible make on history. In the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their interactions with one another, and complete civilizations have risen and fallen after this curious connection we tell our fellow fauna. Brian Fagan unfolds this exciting storyline from the first wolf who wandered into our prehistoric ancestors' camp and found companionship to empires built on the backs of horses, donkeys, and camels to the commercial age, when some animals became goods, often brutally exploited, and others became household pets, nurtured and pampered, sometimes to absurd extremes. Via an in-depth examination of six truly transformative human-animal interactions, Fagan shows how our behaviors and our very life-style were considerably and irreversibly modified by our seductive bonds with animals. Among other tales, Fagan explores how herding changed human behavior; the way the humble donkey helped release the procedure of globalization; and the way the horse carried a hearty music group of nomads around the world and toppled the emperor of China. With quality attention and penetrating understanding, Fagan shows the profound effect that animals have exercised on history and exactly how, in fact, they often drove it.
