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Wild New World
The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
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Ideal for readers interested in environmental history, animal-human interactions, indigenous perspectives, and North American natural history. Also recommended for those who appreciate richly detailed narrative non-fiction and scientific storytelling.
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In 1908, a cowboy discovered bones from an extinct giant bison near Folsom, New Mexico. When archaeologists found handmade weapons embedded in the fossils, the discovery vastly expanded our continent's known human history, but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens have presented to their fellow animals.
Dan Flores's ambitious new history tells the epic story of animals and humans in the wild new world—from the grand forces that shaped North American biology to Pleistocene mass extinctions; clashes between Euro-American belief systems and animals' learned behaviours; and the precipitous decline and miraculous rescue of species in recent centuries.
In thrilling narrative style, informed by native religions, cutting-edge science, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human characters who studied America's animals, hastened their eradication, and are working to recover them.
Eons in scope, and continental in scale, Wild New World is an intimate yet sweeping re-examination of animal-human relations.
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Praised as a "skilled raconteur," Flores crafts a "powerful, and credible, narrative" highlighting the complex life and death in North America (Michelle Nijhuis, New York Review of Books). Reviews commend the book for its sweeping, nuanced perspective from a "wise writer" full of wonders (Open Letters Review) and describe it as a "searing and devastating accounting" of environmental history, comparing it favourably to Barry Lopez's Of Wolves and Men (Nate Blakeslee, author). Steve Rinella of The MeatEater Podcast suggested it is worthy of prestigious award nominations. Wild New World is recognised as a magnificent and profoundly impactful achievement.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781324006169
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 October 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Illustration: 40 illustrations and 4 maps
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 239.0mm
Weight: 727g
Pages: 448
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About the Author
Dan Flores is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana. A distinguished historian of the American West, he is the author of the best-selling books Coyote America and American Serengeti. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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