Wild New World
The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Dan Flores butchered his chance with this book. The subject matter here is so ambitious; a complete history of North American wildlife, truly from the beginning. This could have been perfect. I wanted this to be perfect so badly. This book should have been my shit. And yet I found myself slogging th......more

Interesting and valuable information. Dan Flores clearly has done his home work and cares deeply about sharing his knowledge with the world. Unfortunately I couldn’t finish this book due to his writing style. Bouncing back and forth between the past and the present so often left me struggling to fol......more

"The staggering losses in the first five thousand years of the Anthropocene pitted a superpredator species - us - against prey animals that either had no experience with us or whose evolutionary defenses were keyed to older dangers and were unable to protect them against our spread and efficiency. B......more

I was recently asked, “Which books have you read have changed the way you think about the world or yourself?”. My list was very short but now I have another to add to it. This is a “Big Time” history of the American continent and its animals, starting way back with the mass extinction caused by the......more

I was excited to order this book thinking it would be a deep dive into North America's ancient animal behaviors and interaction. Intertwined with native American tribes and European colonialism. Unfortunately, that is not what this book is. This book is a sporadic and unorganized 'neat facts' collect......more