Mark Derr
Teoksen How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends tekijä
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Mark Derr moved to Florida with his family at age six; his interest in the state's history and ecology dates back to the late 1960s, when he watched the landscape around Winter Park change with the construction of Walt Disney World. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books, The näytä lisää Frontiersman and Dog's Best Friend, and his articles have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Natural History, Audubon, and other publications. He lives in Miami Beach. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1950-01-20
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Miami Beach, Florida, USA
- Suhteet
- Maranto, Gina (spouse)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
The author would have been better off simply making this an epoch-spanning novel. Instead, he blithely makes up his own fantasies of what the past was like, ignores any facts that disagree with his fantasies, and generally acts as though the truth, since it is currently scientifically unproven, can be bent to be whatever we wish it to be. If you like his arbitrary classifications (dogwolves, wolfdogs, socialized wolves, uhh, probably a few more I forgot), have fun with it. I'm not going to waste my time reading the rest.… (lisätietoja)
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- Teokset
- 7
- Jäseniä
- 331
- Suosituimmuussija
- #71,753
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.3
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 2
- ISBN:t
- 28
The book would have flowed much better