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Wild New World - The Epic Story of Animals and People in America (Hardcover)
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Wild New World - The Epic Story of Animals and People in America (Hardcover)
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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 2022 |
Authors: |
Dan Flores
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Dimensions: |
239 x 160 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
448 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-00616-9 |
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LSN: |
1-324-00616-1 |
Barcode: |
9781324006169 |
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