Wild New World

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A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of . Dan Flores has given us a searing and devastating accounting of what has been lost since humans first set foot in North America. This is environmental history at its best: gracefully written, filled with marvelous new details, and infused with a quiet fury that comes across as well-earned and long overdue. It belongs on the same shelf as Barry Lopez’s . This is a magnificent achievement—a sweeping saga, spanning a continent and stretching across thousands of years, about the human relationship with the wild animals of North America. With his sharp eye for the telling detail and compelling anecdote, Dan Flores takes a deep dive into both history and science and weaves it all into an unfolding story that keeps you turning the pages. Analytical, yet brimming with passion, chronicles the profound tragedy of what one species—ours—did to all the other species we encountered and delivers a message as urgent as it is ancient. This is the best book I have read on Americans and the amazing wildlife of this amazing continent. Dan Flores is sweeping, bold, and eloquent, weaving together modern genetic science and traditional literature, people and nature, the history of biology and of laws and politics. He informs us about the world that was, the world we have destroyed, while immersing us in his own personal search for the world that is. An inspiring work surveys America’s bestiary, teeming and rambunctious. Roaming its pages is like having an all-access pass to the backstory of a continent. Dan Flores is an erudite and indefatigable guide on this multidimensional journey through space, time, natural and human history, overflowing with arcane knowledge and surprising insight that is bolstered by the latest science, and, above all, an abiding love for this land and its creatures, past and present US

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