A comprehensive, humane, and bemused tour of the dog-human relationship, "Dog's Best Friend" combines anecdote, research, and reportage to illuminate our complex rapport with our cherished canine companions. Tracking our national obsession with an animal that now outnumbers children in American households, Mark Derr chronicles the evolution of "the culture of the dog" from the prehistoric domestication of tamed wolves to the modern horrors of overbreeding and inbreeding. Passionate about his subject and intent on sharing his zeal, Derr defends dogs with wit and flare, producing here a...
A comprehensive, humane, and bemused tour of the dog-human relationship, "Dog's Best Friend" combines anecdote, research, and reportage to illuminate ...
"The history of Florida is the story of North America in miniature. By telling it with such eloquence and learning in Some Kind of Paradise, Mr. Derr has revealed the dark side of the historian Frederick Jackson Turner s famous hypothesis: our national character was indeed shaped by the frontier. . . . Derr] writes with a journalist s eye for telling details and an antiquarian s fondness for digression and quirky facts. . . . The state s tortuous journey from one extreme to the other is his] subject, and he tackles it with brilliance and bravado."--New York Times Book...
"The history of Florida is the story of North America in miniature. By telling it with such eloquence and learning in Some Kind of Paradise, Mr. De...
