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Wild New World

The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

by Dan Flores
Clark Cornell
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In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent's evolutionary richness. Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America-a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America's animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.

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    October 25, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781696609593
      • File size: 476968 KB
      • Duration: 16:33:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2023

      Flores (emeritus, Western history, Univ. of Montana; Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History) draws on many scientific and social disciplines to paint a devastating portrait of humans as precipitating agents of the current "sixth extinction." Flores's exploration ranges from when humans initially migrated into North America to the depressingly familiar materialism and human exceptionalism that has shaped, if not driven, most U.S. approaches to the natural world from the 1700s to today. The extraordinary success of humans as animals--classic bipedal carnivorous hunters--sets the stage for this ambitious exploration of the eons-long relationship between people and American wildlife. The result is a fascinating, if occasionally overly dense, narrative that drives home the perilous cost of erasing humankind's animal identity or ignoring the complexity that is animal existence. Listeners are neither hampered nor aided by Clark Cornell's narration, which is consistently serviceable but never compelling, a fact that leaves the content to do most of the convincing alone. VERDICT An important, if dryly narrated, account of humans as accidental and purposeful animals of environmental extinction. Recommended for fans of environmental histories and scholars of the same.--Robin Chin Roemer

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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