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American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Written by Dan Flores
Narrated by Michael Kramer
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America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, “it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals.”
In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory-and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers, and ultimately, a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory-and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers, and ultimately, a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Author doesn’t just relate American natural history to the reader but imposes his bias into it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dan Flores does an amazing job laying this out ! Really liked the chapter per animal. The only thing that could have made it better was Dan as the narrator.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A natural history of the Great Plains at the dawn of the 'American West'. Each chapter covers a different species and how they were impacted by the expansion of the United States. The same old sad story, well told.