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The longest story, how humans have loved, hated and misunderstood other species, Richard Girling

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The longest story

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Richard Girling

how humans have loved, hated and misunderstood other species

The history of humanity's relationship with other species is baffling. Without animals there would be no us. We are all fellow travellers on the same evolutionary journey. By charting the love-hate story of people and animals, from their first acquaintance in deep prehistory to the present and beyond, Richard Girling reveals how and where our attitudes towards animals began - and how they have persisted, been warped and become magnified ever since. In dazzling prose, The Longest Story tells of the cumulative influence of theologians, writers, artists, warriors, philosophers, farmers, activists and scientists across the centuries, now locking us into debates on farming, extinction, animal rights, pets, experiments and religion

Prologue -- Part one. In the beginning -- 1. Sweet reason -- 2. The judgement of jackals -- 3. The naming of parts -- 4. Bread and circuses -- 5. Dominion -- Part two. Next -- 6 Darkness into light -- 7. Dying for a cat -- 8. Ugly truths -- 9. The worst man in the world -- 10. Mother Goose -- 11. Tainted meat and healing teats -- Part three. Later -- 12 Mercy -- 13. Pictures, poems and parks -- 14. Old bones, new ideas - 15. Has a frog a soul? -- 16. Beings akin to ourselves -- 17. Nature fakers -- 18. The wolf's lair -- 19. The third hand -- 20. Louder than words -- 21. Warriors of the rainbow -- 22. Meat -- 23. Cruelty and compassion -- 24. Crossing the divide -- 25. Rather them than us -- 26. Articles of faith -- 27. The empty sea