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Narrated by Clark Cornell
Dan FloresUnabridged — 16 hours, 33 minutes
Narrated by Clark Cornell
Dan FloresUnabridged — 16 hours, 33 minutes
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"Wild New World 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."
"Flores is a judicious and even-handed writer, and Wild New World provides readers with a sweeping and nuanced look from . . . a wise writer, disarmingly keen-eyed. Wild New World is full of wonders. . . . Flores does a consistently marvelous job."
"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."
"Flores is a skilled raconteur.…Wild New World succeeds in establishing a powerful, and credible, narrative of life and death in North America."
"[Wild New World is] a tale of wonder at what was and the pathos of extinction, both ancient and current. Flores writes beautifully of how geography shaped the landscape, of the impact of the spread of humans across the land during the Ice Age…. This is an outstanding and invaluable work of popular science."
"Flores relates this huge body of information about the birth of America with both style and clarity.... Flores’ “Wild New World” is an impressive accomplishment that imparts an amazing amount of fascinating facts about our land. It enlightens readers about where we came from and where we might be headed in the future.... A compelling and comprehensive read."
"This is a magnificent achievement—a sweeping saga stretching across thousands of years. With his sharp eye for compelling anecdotes, Flores weaves an unfolding story that keeps you turning the pages."
"To see this book nominated for the National Book Award or nominated for a Pulitzer would not surprise me. I don’t know how you’re going to top it."
"An amazing history…Flores at his best."
"I’ve never encountered a work like Wild New World – nothing even close to the scope, depth, and analysis this fine writer and historian Dan Flores brings to this sad tale. This is a big book, a Big History, and it deserves big attention."
"Never has there been so complete, so fascinating, and so accessible a telling of the long history of people with American wildlife."
"To see this book nominated for the National Book Award or nominated for a Pulitzer would not surprise me."
"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 Of Wolves and Men."
"The future of conservation, and our own survival, depends on busting some of the most stubborn myths that have embedded themselves in Western belief systems—ideologies that have, for centuries, steered us down a course of overexploitation of our planet’s resources…In Flores’ deft hands the facts, fortified by the latest findings in ecology, genetics, and archaeology, fly off the pages in vivid and fascinating detail."
"[Wild New World is] a tale of wonder at what was and the pathos of extinction, both ancient and current. Flores writes beautifully of how geography shaped the landscape, of the impact of the spread of humans across the land during the Ice Age…. This is an outstanding and invaluable work of popular science."
05/01/2022
A distinguished scholar of the U.S. West, Flores (Coyote America) surveys human-wildlife interactions across North America, from the emergence of its flora and fauna and the Pleistocene mass extinctions to the impact of white settlement and the decline (and sometimes rescue) of species in recent centuries.
| BN ID: | 2940174840348 |
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| Publisher: | HighBridge Company |
| Publication date: | 10/25/2022 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
