Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders
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Join us at the historic Brattle Theater for a discussion of surprising animals, plants, fungi, microbes, and more, as well as the people around the world who have dedicated their lives to understanding them.
Harvard Book Store welcomes Cara Giaimo—freelance animal and plant correspondent for the New York Times, Anthropocene Magazine, Fabrikzeitung and elsewhere—and Joshua Foer—coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders—for a discussion Atlas Obscura's new book Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders.
The event will take place at Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138). Doors open at 5:30 PM.
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Cara Giaimo
Cara Giaimo lives in Somerville, MA, with her wife, Lilia, two cats, many plants, and uncountable neighborhood rats. A former staff writer at Atlas Obscura, Cara now covers our fellow species for the New York Times, Fabrikzeitung, Bloomberg Businessweek, and elsewhere. Her first book, Detector Dogs (with Christina Couch), was published by MIT Kids Press in 2022. She plays guitar in Sidebody.
Joshua Foer
Joshua Foer is the cofounder of Atlas Obscura, coauthor of Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders, and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications. His book, Moonwalking with Einstein, was an international bestseller published in thirty-seven languages.