Books by Richard Girling

Why do we treat our dogs as people but prefer pigs as bacon?

';Lucid, informed and persuasive' Evening Standard ';Thought-provoking' Daily Mail ';An extraordinary book' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer The history of humanity's relationship with other species is baffling. Without animals there would be no us. We are all fellow travellers on the same evolutionary journey. By charting the lovehate story of people and animals, from their first acquaintance in deep prehistory to the present and beyond, Richard Girling reveals how and where our attitudes towards animals began and how they have persisted, been warped and become magnified ever since. In dazzling prose, The Longest Story tells of the cumulative influence of theologians, writers, artists, warriors, philosophers, farmers, activists and scientists across the centuries, now locking us into debates on farming, extinction, animal rights, pets, experiments and religion. ';Essential reading' Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming and author of Farmageddon

With a hankerchief to his nose, Girling picks through our fridge mountain, our crumbling sewers, trading waste, packaging waste, hazardous industrial waste...

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian, lecturer, writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed. His life-long passion was to discover new ways to feed the hungry. This is a celebration of the great age of natural science, one man's genius and what, can be learned from him.

The Somali golden mole was first described in 1964. Intrigued by this elusive creature, and what it can tell us about extinction and survival, the author embarks on a hunt to find the animal and its discoverer - an Italian professor who he thinks might still be alive.

We have a special relationship with the sea. Sea Change addresses such issues as pollution by sewage, nuclear waste and dumping at sea; destruction of marine environment, impacts of climate change, coastal erosion and rising sea levels;