Harvard Book Store Presents:

Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer

presenting

Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders

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 of their new book Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders.

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Book Included: Admission for one and one hardcover copy of Atlas Obscura: Wild Life pre-signed by the authors.

Admission Only: Admission for one.

About Atlas Obscura: Wild Life

From the curious minds of Atlas Obscura, authors of #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura, comes an unputdownable celebration of the world’s living wonders.

• Learn how dung beetles navigate by the stars, and trees communicate through their roots.
• Meet one of the strongest animals in the world: the puny peacock mantis shrimp.
• Pay your respects to a 44,000 year old shrub, float along flying rivers, and explore a garbage dump overseen by endangered storks.
• Examine old examples of bird song notation written on sheet music.
• Also, first person interviews: hear from a honey hunter and his avian partners, a scientist working to find the world’s only ocean-dwelling insects, and an offshore radio DJ who is at the heart of the local fishing community.

Featuring over 500 extraordinary plants, animals, and natural phenomena, with illustrations and photos on every page, the book takes readers around the globe—from Antarctic deserts to lush jungles, and into the deepest fathoms of the ocean and the hearts of our densest cities. Teeming with detail and wildly entertaining, Wild Life reinvigorates our sense of wonder, awe and amazement about the incredible creatures we share our planet with.

Praise for Atlas Obscura: Wild Life

“I loved this book. A mind-blowing guide to nature’s most enchanting and unexpected characters, every page is full of wit and wonder.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World

“It makes me want to run upstairs, pack a bag, and bolt away to some far-flung corner of this astounding planet. Because now I know there are immortal jellyfish out there, and skink mansions and peacock spiders, and I know where and how to see them! So if I can just manage to stop compulsively reading every single page here, I’ll be on my way.”—Mary Roach, bestselling author of Stiff

“Almost as jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring as the planet itself—and more portable.”—BJ Novak, bestselling author, actor, and comedian

Masking Policy

Masks are encouraged but not required for this event.

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.