The Lion's Historian: Africa's Animal Past

by Sandra Swart

"Until the lion has a historian of his own, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." Sandra Swart takes up the challenge of that African proverb and, with this book, becomes the lion's historian. As a species, humans are not alone; but our history has been written as though we were. Swart insists on a multispecies retelling of our more-than-human past as she reconstructs a shifting series of significant interspecies relationships,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821426257
• ISBN13: 9780821426258
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.