People & Their Pets Publisher / Silver Press Dowd traces the development of

Dowd traces the development of illustration as an integral part of the reading experience

step-by-step

pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century

from the tight bodices and plunging necklines of the eighteenth century to the free-spirited bohemian style of the 1960s

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People & Their Pets Publisher / Silver Press Dowd traces the development ofWe have been domesticating animals for over ten thousand years. Why do we want tame wolves in our homes, subdued wild cats on our laps and snakes draped like scarves around our necks? This great conversation between the wild and the tame is human history, human psychology, human politics and human sociology. Pets feature in art, poetry and some of our most popular stories. Is it because we ourselves are wild and so we want furry, feathered and scaly