Join NYC Bird Alliance and Cara Giaimo as she shares insights on the making of Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders, the newest addition to The New York Times-bestselling Atlas Obscura. This dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world’s most extraordinary wild species takes you to all seven continents and beyond. Written by Atlas Obscura co-founder Joshua Foer and freelance animal and plant correspondent Cara Giaimo (The New York Times, Nautilus, etc.), it’s a curious traveler’s guide to the world's most fascinating, most unusual, and least-understood flora and fauna. Purchase your copy today!

About the Speaker:

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, The Plant, The Drift, and elsewhere. Her first book, Detector Dogs (with Christina Couch), was published by MIT Kids Press in 2022. She plays guitar in Sidebody.

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The NYC Bird Alliance Lecture Series is made possible by the support of Claude and Lucienne Bloch.

Photos:
Left: Cover of Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders. © Workman Publishing Company
Right: Headshot of  Cara Giaimo