{"product_id":"wild-ones-a-sometimes-dismaying-weirdly-reassuring-story-about-looking-at-people-looking-at-animals-in-america-paperback","title":"Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon Mooallem\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Intelligent and highly nuanced... This book may bring tears to your eyes.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJournalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter's world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd 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. \u003ci\u003eWild Ones\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eWild Ones\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Mooallem\u003c\/b\u003e has been a contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003esince 2006 and is a writer at large for \u003ci\u003ePop-Up Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the live magazine in San Francisco. He's also contributed to \u003ci\u003eThis American Life, The New Yorker, Harper's, Wired\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other magazines. He and his family live in San Francisco. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ewww.JonMooallem.com\u003c\/b\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.5 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52635762295091,"sku":"9780143125372","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MSmnL7MVYo9780143125372.webp?v=1762264446","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/wild-ones-a-sometimes-dismaying-weirdly-reassuring-story-about-looking-at-people-looking-at-animals-in-america-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}