A Brief History of Humanity Through the Eyes of Animals

Alongside humans travel modest yet very important companions — animals. They have witnessed the first humans emerging in Africa. They fled from them with all their might when these humans became hunters, and they pulled the plow when those humans started leading a settled lifestyle. Animals became the center of attention when kings and rulers showcased them, boasting of their power. Knights sat atop the backs of beasts, believers gathered at the animals' hooves, and soldiers relied on the wings of birds to send messages to their loved ones.

In this book, 29 animal narrators share stories from their lives. Their testimonies are distributed along a timeline from two hundred thousand years ago to the present day. Sometimes they look back, sometimes they are in the heat of events, and sometimes they hopefully gaze into the future... "A Brief History of Humanity Through the Eyes of Animals" by writer and journalist Jaakye Akveld and artist Jenne Phila from the Netherlands is a unique artistic non-fiction for middle school children, allowing them to view our history through the eyes of a silkworm caterpillar, a sacred cow, or a polar bear, dive into the world of a celebrity orca, listen to the story of chimpanzee Ham, and hear the call of the kakapo. The word is given to the animals!