The History of the World in Fifty Dogs.
Mackenzi. Lee
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Abrams Image
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (195 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Dog Domestication: A Short Introduction to the Notorious D.O.G. -- Bark Like an Egyptian: Abuwtiyuw, History's First Recorded Dog with a Name -- The Xoloitzcuintli: She Is Beauty, She Is Grace, She Will Lead You to the Underworld in Spite of Her Weird Face -- Panhu Makes Fetch Happen: Chinese Mythology's Original Ancestor -- Argos, the Loyal Dog of the Odyssey: Western Literature's First Dead Dog -- All Dogs Go to Heaven: King Yudhisthira and the Dog of the Mahābhārata -- Peritas the Great: The Somewhat Mythical Dog of Alexander the Great -- Imperial China's Adorable Mace: The Pekingese and Other Lion Dogs of China -- The Dog King of Norway Has No Idea What He's Doing: Scandinavia's Mythical History of Ruff Regents -- St. Roch, the Patron Saint of Dogs: Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Treats -- Donchadh, Robert the Bruce's Loyal Hound: Unintentionally Becomes Dog the Bounty Hunter -- Conquistadogs! In Which Dogs Are Forced to Be Complicit in Colonialism -- Tinker Tailor Soldier Pug: How One Dog Stopped a Royal Assassination -- Urian the Greyhound: One Dog Chomps the Catholic Church -- Game of Bones: The Dogs of the English Civil War -- The Gravity of the Situation: In Which Isaac Newton's Dog Almost Ruins Everything -- The Dog Shogun: Protecting the Strays of Japan -- I Want Brandy! Barry and the Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard Pass -- "If You Want a Friend in Washington, Get a Dog": First Pups in the White House -- Fortune the Pug: Napoleon Bonaparte Has a Bone to Pick with Dogs -- Woofers Go West! Lewis, Clark, and Their Newfoundland, Seaman, Lead the Corps of Discovery -- Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Pet: Lord Byron's Dog Botswain, and Also, What Was the Romantic Movement? -- The Brown Dog Affair: Or, JFC Let's Stop Experimenting on Animals.. - Greyfriars Bobby: And Other Loyal Dog Tails -- Semper Fido: How "Fido" Became Synonymous with "Dog" -- Adopt Don't Shop! Caroline Earle White Founds America's First Animal Shelters -- "Hello? Yes, This Is Dog": How Alexander Graham Bell's Dog Helped Invent the Telephone -- They See Me Rollin': Bud Nelson and the First Cross-Country Road Trip in the United States -- Lizzie Borden Took an Ax . . . and Used It to Chop Up Treats for Her Boston Terriers -- National Bark Ranger: John Muir and Stickeen, Partners in Adventure -- The Pawscar Goes To . . . : Dogs in the Movies -- My Bark Will Go On: Dogs on the Titanic -- A Small History of Therapy Dogs: How Does That Make You Feel? -- The Dogs of War, Part I: The Canine Combatants of World War I -- Russia's Last Royal Dogs: Although the Tsar Did Not Survive, One Dogter May Be Still Alive -- The War of the Stray Dog: Or, the Curious Incident of the Dog in the War-time -- Dire Wolves Against Diphtheria: Togo, Balto, and the Great Race of Mercy to Save Nome, Alaska -- Her Majesty's Corgis: How These Furry Potatoes Became the Symbol of the British Crown -- America's First Seeing-Eye Dog: The Walk That Changed History -- Reservoir Dog: The Hoover Dam's Four-Legged Mascot -- Hitler's Talking Dog Army: It Did Not Pan Out -- You Call This Barkaeology?! Robot the Dog Discovers the Lascaux Cave Paintings -- The Dogs of War, Part II: The Pupper Privates of World War II -- DOGS! IN! SPAAAAACE! How Dogs Took Man to Space -- Martha, My Dear! Beatlemania's First Dog -- I Can Has Racial Equality? Nelson Mandela and His Dog, Gompo -- The Canine Rescue Teams of 9/11: Each One Gooder Than the Last -- Furgin Birth: How Snuppy Became the World's First Cloned Dog -- Slum Dog Mountaineer: From Homeless Stray to the First Dog to Climb Mt. Everest -- Dying Breeds: Extinct Dog Breeds in History -- Selected Bibliography.
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| ISBN | 1-68335-763-9
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