American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
- ISBN-10
- 0385521693
- ISBN-13
- 9780385521697
- Series
- American Buffalo
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Author
- Steven Rinella
Description
American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella's hunt for this animal in the Alaskan wilderness. 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.
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