Historian of science and the environment // Late adopter & cautious adventurer // Interested in 19th, 20th and 21st century natures // Author of Stations in the Field and Nature's Diplomats // https://moving-animals.nl
Raf De Bont 🟥
Neatly labeled wilderness!
Publication day!
Globalizing Wildlife - edited by Tom Quick, @vbateman.bsky.social and yours truly - shows that globalization is not just a human but also an animal affair.
Used the occasion of being in the Max Planck institute to visit the imposing Botanical garden nearby.
You can buy your hard copies via the University of North Carolina Press, or consult the book online for free via JSTOR.
It has high-tech jungles!
With histories on grey parrot trade, global Przewalski's horse breeding, trans-Atlantic movement of chimpansee blood, and much more!
And in the margins of the exotica, a bit of Heimatgefühl.
