Man’s best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a
travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and walkers,
equally happy curled up by the fire and bounding through the great
outdoors--dogs matter to us because we love them. But is that all
there is to the canine’s good-natured voracity and affectionate
dependency?
Mark Alizart dispenses with the well-worn clichés concerning dogs and
their masters, seeing them not as submissive pets but rather as
unexpected life coaches, ready to teach us the elusive recipes for
contentment and joy. Dogs have faced their fate in life with a
certain detachment that is not easy to understand. Unlike other
animals in a similar situation, they have not become hardened, nor
have they let themselves die a little inside. On the contrary, they
seem to have softened. This book is devoted to understanding this
miracle, the miracle of the joy of dogs - to understanding it and, if
at all possible, to learning how it’s done.
Weaving elegantly and eruditely between historical myth and
pop-culture anecdote, between the peculiar views of philosophers and
the even more bizarre findings of science, Alizart offers us a
surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker--a thinker who may
perhaps know the true secret of our humanity.
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ISBN
9781509537303
Publisert
2019
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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