Thu, Oct 27
|Collected Works Bookstore
Dan Flores, Wild New World
Dan will be in conversation with author Sara Dant. A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.
Date, Time & Location
Oct 27, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This event will take place in-store. For your safety and those around you, we do ask that all audience members wear a mask. This event will not be live-streamed via Zoom.
Pre-order Wild New World online here or call the store (505) 988-4226.
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 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.…