Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
by Leila Philip
From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing. Philip follows fur trappers, fur traders, and fur auctioneers, as well as wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, engineers, and the colorful group of activists known as “beaver believers.”
Including a new afterword by the author, Beaverland is beautifully written and impeccably researched. It reveals the profound ways in which one odd creature and the trade surrounding it has shaped history, culture, and our environment.
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