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(review writen Nov 2024, several months after finishing the book)
The audiobook of this made for a lovely, documentary-like experience. Wild New World tells the story of the North American continent from prehistory, to first nations, to colonization, industrialization, re-wilding, and climate change. It's an ambitious arc and the author pulls it off.
I personally found the pre-european contact sections most interesting and wish they had taken up a larger fraction of the book. Similarly, I found the industrial era stuff really dragged, and lowered my enjoyment of the book.
Recommended if you want to hear about mammoths, horses disappearing and coming back, ancient and modern peoples, and rewilding of wolves in an encyclopedic voice. 3.5 stars rounded down.
The audiobook of this made for a lovely, documentary-like experience. Wild New World tells the story of the North American continent from prehistory, to first nations, to colonization, industrialization, re-wilding, and climate change. It's an ambitious arc and the author pulls it off.
I personally found the pre-european contact sections most interesting and wish they had taken up a larger fraction of the book. Similarly, I found the industrial era stuff really dragged, and lowered my enjoyment of the book.
Recommended if you want to hear about mammoths, horses disappearing and coming back, ancient and modern peoples, and rewilding of wolves in an encyclopedic voice. 3.5 stars rounded down.