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Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and their Animals in Early Modern England, by Erica Fudge

Ann Hughes visits a time when relationships with animals combined affection and pragmatism

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This Land Is Your Land: The Story of Field Biology in America, by Michael J. Lannoo

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