Wild new world : the epic story of animals and people in America / Dan Flores.
| Author/creator | Flores, Dan, 1948- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022] |
| Description | 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: All is vanity -- A prologue in deep time -- Clovisia the beautiful -- Raven's and Coyote's America -- To know an entire heaven and an entire Earth -- Thou shalt acknowledge the wonder -- The natural West -- Silence and emptiness -- Last rivers across the sky -- Golden-eyed lightning rod -- A species of eternity -- Epilogue: How are you enjoying the anthropocene? |
| Abstract | "A deep-time history of how humans engaged wildlife in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, a cowboy discovered bones from an extinct giant bison near Folsom, New Mexico. When archeologists 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 behaviors; 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-417) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948- Wild new world. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022] 9781324006176 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022027350 |
| ISBN | 9781324006169 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1324006161 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | QL85 .F59 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |