The Intimate Bond (42 page)

20.
Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, p. 139. Dog cart hauling was finally outlawed in Britain in 1854.

Chapter 18
: To Kill, to Display, and to Love

1.
Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, chapter 5, provides an admirable survey and is my primary source for this section.

2.
Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, p. 207.

3.
Ibid., p. 215.

4.
Punch
60 (1871): 240.

5.
Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, chapter 6, provides a comprehensive summary of the developments described in this section.

6.
Quote from Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, p. 250. See also Roualeyn Gordon Cumming,
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
(London: John Murray, 1850).

7.
Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, p. 253. Selous wrote several books, among them
Travel and Adventure in South-East
Africa (London: R. Ward, 1903).

8.
Quoted by Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, p. 253.

9.
Lord Byron, “Epitaph to a Dog” (1808),
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/byron/epitaph_to_dog.html

10.
Surveyed in Ritvo,
Animal Estate
, chapter 2.

11.
Ibid., p. 98.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Described by ibid., pp. 115–21.

14.
Andrew Lawler,
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization
(New York: Atria Books, 2014).

15.
Mathew Arnold,
Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
(New York: Macmillan, 1883 [UK edition, 1869]), pp. 77–78. Oscar Wilde's reference to “the unspeakable” is a remark made by Lord Illingworth in act 1 of Wilde's play
A Woman of No Importance
, performed in London in 1893 (Seattle: Amazon Digital Services, 2011).

16.
Serpell and Paul, “Pets,” p. 127.

17.
This section is based on Peter Singer's classic book-length essay
Animal Liberation
, rev. ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2009). Quote from p. 213. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the issues surrounding animal liberation, as is another classic: Steven M. Wise,
Drawing the Line: Science and the Case of Animal Rights
(Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2002).

18.
Singer,
Animal Liberation
, p. 226.

A Note on the Author

Brian Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California–Santa Barbara. Born in England, he did fieldwork in Africa and has written about North American and world archaeology and many other topics. His books on the interaction of climate and human society have established him as the leading authority on the subject; he lectures frequently around the world. He is the editor of
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
and the author of
The Attacking Ocean
,
Beyond the Blue Horizon
,
Elixir
,
Cro-Magnon
,
The Great Warming
,
Fish on Friday
,
The Little Ice Age
, and
The Long Summer
, among many other titles.

 

Also by Brian Fagan

Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind

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“Where We Saw a Whale”: The Story of Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

The Great Warming

Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World

From Stonehenge to Samarkand
(editor)

Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society

Before California

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850

Egypt of the Pharaohs

Floods, Famines, and Emperors

Into the Unknown

From Black Land to Fifth Sun

Eyewitness to Discovery
(editor)

Oxford Companion to Archaeology
(editor)

Time Detectives

Kingdoms of Jade, Kingdoms of Gold

Journey from Eden

Ancient North America

The Great Journey

The Adventure of Archaeology

The Aztecs

Clash of Cultures

Return to Babylon

Quest for the Past

Elusive Treasure

The Rape of the Nile

The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

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