The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past by Sandra Swart [New]

ISBN: 9781431433957 / 1431433950 - The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past by Sandra Swart. Published by Jacana Media, 2024. Softcover. New. 376 pp.y

The animals in this landmark book – elephants, hippos, okapi, lions, jackals, cows, sheep, horses, white ants, quagga, Nazi cattle, police dogs and baboons – are chosen strategically to highlight different facets of our shared past. With this animal-centric lens, decades of research are brought together in an astonishing book, one that takes animals seriously.

The possibility of our shared future pivots on a reckoning with our shared pasts. This pioneering work shows what human-animal history can do, not only to help us better understand our place in the world, but to make our world - however slightly - a better place.

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