Man And the Natural World
  • Published: 26 September 1991
  • ISBN: 9780140146868
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $35.00
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Man And the Natural World

Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800

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An account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800, and comparing and contrasting this with our present attitude towards it

Why do we eat what we do? Why do we keep some animals as pets and eat others? Keith Thomas takes us on a engrossing journey to discover our strange relationship with animals and plants.
  • Published: 26 September 1991
  • ISBN: 9780140146868
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Man And the Natural World

Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything - why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not that, why we keep pets, why we like some animals and not others, why we kill the things we kill and love the things we love ... It is often a funny book and one to read again and again.

Paul Theroux, Sunday Times

The English historian Keith Thomas has revealed modes of thought and ways of life deeply strange to us

Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books

A treasury of unusual historical anecdote ... a delight to read and a pleasure to own

Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph

A dense and rich work ... the return to the grass roots of our own environmental convictions is made by the most enchantingly minor paths

Ronald Blythe, Guardian
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