# Event Details - **Event Name**: BOOK LAUNCH! Andrew Moore, "The Beasts of the East" - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 02 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 02 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: We are thrilled to launch and celebrate the new book by James Beard Foundation Award finalist, Andrew Moore: The Beast of the East!About this EventWe are thrilled to launch and celebrate the new book by James Beard Foundation Award finalist, Andrew Moore: The Beasts of the East. Moore offers a marvel of enviornmental history, reportage, and a wondrous call to action for rewiliding and conservation in the Northeastern American wilderness.“An exemplary work of environmental journalism.” ―Kirkus, starred review"A fresh and fascinating portrait of the eastern wilds, The Beasts of the East is a celebration of the extraordinary lost natural wonder of the eastern U.S.—an astonishingly abundant landscape that was once the center of American wildness before its despoliation—and a revelatory journey through recent efforts to return elk, bison, wolves, and other creatures to their native landscapes.“A REVELATION. Andrew Moore recreates a lost world of not long ago, when the eastern part of North America was wild, when there were elk in Illinois, bison in Indiana, and much of Ohio and Michigan were covered by swamps. This book is both an elegy for what we’ve lost over the last few centuries of so-called human progress, and a clarion call for conservation, rewilding, and finding wonder in those pockets of history that still remain.” ―STEVE BRUSATTE, author of The Rise and Reign of the Mammals and The Story of BirdsBefore skyscrapers and smokestacks rose across the eastern U.S., elk, bison, wolves, and cougars roamed. Typically imagined as icons of the West, these large mammals are in fact native to what was once a kind of Eden—towering forests in the Northeast, rolling prairies in the Midwest, and cypress swamps in the Deep South. But, in mere decades, industrialization and unregulated hunting brought these emblems of the East to the precipice of extinction; by the 1950s, squirrels were one of the few wild mammals an easterner was likely to encounter.Now, even as the climate and biodiversity crises loom, eastern wildlife are staging an unlikely comeback. Herds of bison graze on Illinois prairies, red wolves lurk in North Carolina’s coastal marshes, and abandoned coal mines in Kentucky are now home to thousands of elk. Such rewilding promises to restore balance to eastern ecosystems and return one of the most biodiverse regions in the world to its former luster—but not without controversy.In The Beasts of the East, we follow environmental writer and James Beard Award finalist Andrew Moore as he meets conservationists, hunters, biologists, and nature lovers as they confront herculean challenges: How can we enable wildlife migration in the midst of suburban sprawl? Are these success stories viable in the long-term? When humans and wildlife come in close contact, how do we define wilderness?ANDREW MOORE is the author of Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit, which was a James Beard Foundation Book Award finalist in Writing and Literature. Pawpaw was featured on PBS News Hour and in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Saveur, The Washington Post, and more. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Daily Yonder. He lives in Pittsburgh. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/f3afa8f0-3b3f-11f1-bd1f-f1e10f03be6f-rimg-w1200-h628-dc208859-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/book-launch-andrew-moore-the-beasts-of-the-east/100001987660841082 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Pittsburgh - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: White Whale Bookstore - **lat**: 40.461023 - **long**: -79.9482606 - **full address**: White Whale Bookstore, 4754 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: BOOK LAUNCH! 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