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

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

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

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

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



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Here's John Batchler.

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Continuing with Professor Dan Flores, his new book is Wild New World,

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the epic story of animals and people in America, Henry David Thoreau.

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Certainly a man celebrated for his literary skill and his observation talents.

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Wrote very carefully, this is the 19th century.

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When I consider that the nobler animals have been exterminated here,

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the Cougar Panther, Lynx, Wolverine, Wolf Bear, most deer, the beaver, the turkey,

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I cannot but feel as if I have lived in a tamed and as it were a masculated country.

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I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, thinking that I have

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heard the entire poem and then to Masha Grin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy

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that I possess and have read that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves

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and grandest passages and mutilated in many places.

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I read that aloud, Professor, because it's extremely sad and very accurate.

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In your telling, you fill in the parts that Henry David Thoreau moves quickly past

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