Timm Schönfelder offers us an ideal starting place for exploring the rich field of animal history. Readers will leave with a comprehensive understanding of how historians have written about animals, an appetite to delve further into scholarship, and fresh thoughts about the non-human creatures that surround us.

Andy Bruno, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Species History is one of the fastest-growing, most popular and useful subfields within the diverse Environmental Humanities. The author takes us on an animal history journey, marine and terrestrial, wild and domestic, cherished and despised, exploring shifting human attitudes, values and perceptions over time. We have shaped their destinies, and they ours. This is a book that challenges us to think not just about Nature, but about human nature.

Rob Lambert, University of Nottingham, UK