Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America

"Intelligent and highly nuancedâ€¦ This book may bring tears to your eyes." -- San Francisco ChronicleÂ

Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughterâ€™s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquÃ©d owlsâ€”while the actual world sheâ€™s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of Americaâ€™s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects itâ€”from Thomas Jeffersonâ€™s celebrations of early abundance to the turn-of the-last-century origins of the teddy bear to the whale-loving hippies of the 1970s. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without the easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalismâ€™s older guard, Wild Ones merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring a life into, a broken world.

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	RKC2006610871
Color	White
IsAdultProduct
Height	8.44
Length	5.5
Weight	0.59965735264
Width	0.8
ReleaseDate	2014-05-27
NumberOfItems	1

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America