{"product_id":"wild-new-world-by-dan-flores-9781324006169","title":"Wild New World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/em\u003e have presented to their fellow animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDan Flores's ambitious new history tells the epic story of animals and humans in the \u003cem\u003ewild new world\u003c\/em\u003e—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEons in scope, and continental in scale, \u003cem\u003eWild New World\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate yet sweeping re-examination of animal-human relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433328984300,"sku":"9781324006169","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324006169.jpg?v=1774765160","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/wild-new-world-by-dan-flores-9781324006169","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}