Wild Ones by Jon Mooallem
Intelligent and highly nuanced. This book may bring tears to your eyes. -- San Francisco Chronicle Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter's world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliqu d owls--while the actual world she'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 America'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 it--from Thomas Jefferson'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 journalism'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.
JON MOOALLEM has been a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine since 2006 and is a writer at large for Pop-Up Magazine, the live magazine in San Francisco. He s also contributed to This American Life, The New Yorker, Harper s, Wired, and many other magazines. He and his family live in San Francisco.
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781594204425 |
| ISBN 10 | 159420442X |
| Title | Wild Ones |
| Author | Jon Mooallem |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Press |
| Year published | 2013-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Commended for Books for a Better Life (Green) 2013, Commended for Books for a Better Life (Green) 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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