
Wild New World
The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
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Narrated by:
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Clark Cornell
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By:
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Dan Flores
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 scholar 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.
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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The low overall rating comes from Mr. Flores pointing out the flaws of 19th century and earlier society regarding stewardship of animal life. Writing on historical topics calls for objectivity. It's easy to say what they did wrong; nothing like a Monday morning quarterback. Does Mr. Flores really think that he needed to inform the reader that the wholesale slaughter of the Bison was a supremely bad idea? Maybe he has to include a woke homage for academia to give his a gold star.
The narrator had a terrible voice.
Disappointing
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I recommend this to any folks that think humans are the best.
I only gave 3 stars for performance because I think the author could have done a better job
Great listen, definitely recommend to any homo sapien
Very good
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Just let Dan read the damn book.
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Needs a different narrator
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Great story, could use a different narrator.
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Awesome book. Terrible narration.
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just wish he would also narrate!!
Another home run for Dan Flores!
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Im a hunter
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Couldn’t listen to this narrator
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the history of wildlife in America
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