8/87/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores (Author) Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores (Author)
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John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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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| 0:39.0 | Other fees may apply, often may be withdrawn. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Dan Flores, the book is Wild New World, the epic story of animals and people in America. |
| 0:52.0 | The man's name is Sir William Drummond Stewart. He began a |
| 0:57.0 | safari, a luxurious safari in the West, middle of the 19th century. |
| 1:03.0 | And what results from it is a massacre of animals, |
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| 1:27.0 | He becomes a model for the other adventurers who come in the latter part of the century when the railroad makes it available to reach |
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