Join the in-person discussion about Wild New World as a part of the Big Library Read.
Join us for the next Big Library Read.
Wild New World, by Dan Flores.
Join us for the next Big Library Read book discussion! We look forward to seeing you at this in-person discussion event on May 23, 2024, from 5-6pm at Headquarters Library, Foundation Room.
From May 9-23, library patrons can read Dan Flores' thrilling narrative, 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.
It will be available as an ebook and audiobook on Libby*.
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.
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