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6/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores (Author)

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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6/8: 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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0:00.0

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0:02.2

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0:38.9

Story of Animals and People in America.

0:42.4

Thomas Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, and the

0:46.8

opening of the West because much of the story up to now about the striking paradox between the original Eurasian settlers and their sympathetic

1:00.0

approach to the animal kingdom where they thrived.

1:04.0

And the second invasion of the Eurasian Homo sapiens,

1:08.0

where they were either consternated or frightened by the animal kingdom.

1:14.7

Now we move to the west of the country.

1:17.8

And Lewis and Clark record the first shooting of a buffalo

1:21.8

that's official in American life.

1:24.2

At the same time, this period of revelations across America also include a man named John James

1:31.5

Audubon, whom we remember is the Audubon Society.

1:35.0

So there are two approaches going on.

1:36.7

One, how rich are we and what can we do with it?

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