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5/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores (Author)

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John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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5/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Wild-New-World-Animals-America-ebook/dp/B09TQ2TMN2

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, Floresdescribes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before.

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Continuing with Professor Dan Flores, his new book is Wild New World, the epic story of animals and people in America, Henry David Thoreau, certainly a man celebrated for his literary skill and his observation

0:56.6

talent wrote very carefully this is the 19th century when I consider that the nobler animals have been

1:04.4

exterminated here, the Cougar, Panther, Lynx, Wolverine, Wolf Bear, Most Deer,

1:10.4

the Beaver, the Turkey, I cannot but feel as if I have lived in a tamed and as it were

1:16.0

emasulated country I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring

1:21.0

thinking that I have here the entire poem and then to my should of the first leaves in grandest passages and mutilated

1:36.4

in many places.

1:38.9

I read that a loud professor because it's extremely sad and very accurate. In your telling you

1:46.9

fill in the parts that Henry David Thoreau moves quickly past as he celebrates a pond.

1:55.0

And in considering North America, I asked the big question because you've been dealing with this story for quite some time, Dan, and I'm privileged to speak to you about it having read

2:04.6

your book. Is this understanding that Thoreau had? Is he isolated? Is he a loner at the

2:11.2

time? Or was this always there in America just overwhelmed by the politics and the

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