{"product_id":"american-buffalo-in-search-of-a-lost-icon-paperback","title":"American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon - 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\u003eSteven Rinella\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most promising debut by a nature writer in years . . . a hymn to a complicated, long-standing human-animal relationship.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA hunt for the American buffalo, an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination--from the host of the show \u003ci\u003eMeatEater\u003c\/i\u003e as seen on Netflix \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds--there's only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful--Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years' worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo's place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Buffalo\u003c\/i\u003e is a narrative tale of Rinella's hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo's past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World's earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a \"bone charcoal\" plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRinella's erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Buffalo\u003c\/i\u003e tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTEVEN RINELLA is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine\u003c\/i\u003e and a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eOutside \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. His writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e American Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Field \u0026amp; Stream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Men's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and Salon.com.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe grew up in Twin Lake, Michigan, and now tries to split his time between Alaska and Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 7.94 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45338568065126,"sku":"9780385521697","price":29.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ZnRsWWdQd09CT1BMQkEyeFR0UXBCQT09.webp?v=1774633835","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/american-buffalo-in-search-of-a-lost-icon-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}