About the contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the contributors ix
4. Introduction: Wild Hearts and Minds 1
5. Part I Conservation’s Shifting Ground
6. 1 There Goes a Badger 13
7. 2 Embracing the Cane Toad 22
8. 3 Invasive Species in the Anthropocene, or Learning to Love the Dingo 36
9. 4 Bringing the Wild Things into Our Lives 48
10. 5 How Did We Get Here? 58
11. Part II Wilderness, Wildness, Wild: Legacies and Liabilities
12. 6 Why Does Anything Need to be Called Wild? 69
13. 7 Affirming the Wilderness Ideal 84
14. 8 Picturing the Wild 99
15. 9 In Feral Land Is the Preservation of the World 115
16. Part III Knowing Nature in the Human Age
17. 10 Revealing and Reveling in the Story of Nature 127
18. 11 Seeing, Feeling, and Knowing Nature 143
19. 12 Virtual Nature and the Future of the Wild 155
20. 13 The Digital Animal 165
21. 14 Hope for the Wild in Afrofuturism 177
22. 15 Listening to Learn 191
23. 16 When Natural History Brings Us to Our Senses 205
24. Afterword 215
25. Acknowledgments 231
26. Notes 233
27. Index 251