“An exemplary work of environmental journalism and advocacy.” –Kirkus (Starred Review)

“A REVELATION. Andrew Moore recreates a lost world of not long ago, when the eastern part of North America was wild, when there were elk in Illinois, bison in Indiana, and much of Ohio and Michigan were covered by swamps. This book is both an elegy for what we’ve lost over the last few centuries of so-called human progress, and a clarion call for conservation, rewilding, and finding wonder in those pockets of history that still remain.” ―STEVE BRUSATTE, author of The Rise and Reign of the Mammals and The Story of Birds

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