Adam Nicolson

A chronicle of brutality

From wholesale, hate-filled abuse to the modern taste for concealed exploitation, our treatment of the animal kingdom confirms us as the world’s cruellest brutes, says Adam Nicolson

issue 08 September 2012

  • Animal Encounters: Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One

    Arthur MacGregor

    Reaktion Books, pp. 512

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