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Wild New World - The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
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Wild New World - The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
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List price R583
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You Save R99 (17%)
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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 author 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. The arrival of humans precipitated
an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores
treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering
two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how
our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America,
initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer
than the present United States. But humanity’s success had
devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic
story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth
Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the
story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old
World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter
that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the
decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades. 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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Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Dan Flores
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
448 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-06591-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-324-06591-5 |
Barcode: |
9781324065913 |
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