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by Roland Smith (Author)
From the New York Times-bestselling author, Roland Smith, comes a fascinating, fact-filled resource that explores how humans have introduced--on purpose and by accident--plants and animals to parts of the world where they were previously unknown. . .sometimes with disastrous results.
Did you know that brown rats were brought to the United States in the eighteenth century on a ship from England? Or that thousands of exotic pets were released into the Florida Everglades after a hurricane in 1992, leading to today's booming Burmese python population? All over the country, non-native species from around the world have been introduced to our lands, irrevocably changing the natural balances of their new habitats.
Author Biography
Roland Smith is a NYT-bestselling author who has published many books for children and young adults, and a former Zoo Curator and Research Biologist. He spent more than twenty years working with animals and plans to spend the next twenty writing about them.
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