American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Dan Flores
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 172 pages, 20 illustrations, 5 maps,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; RNKH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 273 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
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. Pronghornantelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed insuch abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, “it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudesof these animals.”
In a work that is at once a lyricalevocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic ... Read more
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. Pronghornantelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed insuch abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, “it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudesof these animals.”
In a work that is at once a lyricalevocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700622276
SKU
V9780700622276
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About Dan Flores
Dan Flores is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana, Missoula. His many books include TheNatural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains and Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in theNear Southwest.
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