Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated...
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Author: Dayton Duncan
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Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo by Duncan, Dayton

Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

CHF 53.12

Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

CHF 53.12
Author: Dayton Duncan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history

The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal--is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals.

Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade, they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst.

Author: Dayton Duncan, Kenneth Burns
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780593537343


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2023 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023

About the Author
KEN BURNS, the producer and director of numerous film series, including Vietnam, The Roosevelts, and The War, founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.

DAYTON DUNCAN, writer and producer of Country Music, is the author of twelve other books, including Out West: An American Journey Along the Lewis and Clark Trail. He has worked with Ken Burns as a writer and producer of documentary films for nearly thirty years.

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