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  • Wild New World

  • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
  • Written by: Dan Flores
  • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
  • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Written by: Dan Flores
Narrated by: Clark Cornell
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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.

©2022 Dan Flores (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Love Dam”s work but

Like I say love Dan’s work read everything he has put out. I have to say the narrator in this sounds like bad Ai. That’s incredibly disappointing I been waiting for this book for a while.
All the Best to you Dan

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Annoying Accents

Overall a good read. the following I disliked:

1) the narrator's accents, they were so bad

2) the author knows nothing of Western Christianity beyond stock lines in a textbook and makes jibes at it

3) it's pedantic if you've read his other books, I'd say 30% of this is identical material to American Serengeti and Coyote

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Amazing. Great book, great narrarator

Great book, great narrarator. Part tragedy (mosty), part hope, and very informative in a more truthful wildlife history than we often hear from.

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Dan’s work is great but the narrator is rubbish.

Narration was bad enough that I could not finish the book. Let Dan read it!

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terrible narration

great story, very interesting topic. ruined by a narrator who sounds as though he is auditioning for a Broadway musical. disappointing.

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the narrator is junk.

the person who was hired to read this is soooooo annoying. Their accents when quoting is cringe. Their voices when reading for different characters is also terrible. Also, did you want a book that might have some info about ancient animals in North America? Surprise mother trucker, it's a book about how colonialism is bad.

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AWFUL

I'VE LISTENED TO 100'S OF BOOKS AND THIS IS BY FAR THE WORSE NARRATION EVER.

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