The Age of Deer

Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbours

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Pub Date 18 Jan 2024 | Archive Date 26 Apr 2024

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Description

A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road.

From the earliest cave paintings to the present day, humans and deer have a long and complex history. Royal harts were the coveted quarry of European kings, while the first Americans relied on deer for everything from buckskins to arrow heads. Once hunted to the point of extinction in some parts of the world, deer numbers have exploded in recent years, causing tension between scientists and conservationists. And yet, this is our own story, as the fortune of deer is inextricably bound up with the actions that we humans take on the world around us.

Weaving together history and reportage, in The Age of Deer Erika Howsare deftly explores the relationship between our two species in the line where wildness meets humankind. It is a reminder of the poetry and violence of the natural world, from an exciting new voice in nature writing.

A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road.

From the earliest cave paintings to the present...


A Note From the Publisher

Erika Howsare is a writer, journalist and teacher. Her essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Rumpus, and she is the author of two collections of poetry, How is Travel a Folded Form? and FILL: A Collection (with Kate Schapira). She lives in the Blue Ridge in central Virginia.

Erika Howsare is a writer, journalist and teacher. Her essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Rumpus, and she is the author of...


Advance Praise

'A poignant meditation on humanity's relationship with deer . . . [Howsare's] lyrical musings cast her subject in a new light . . . Readers will be enthralled.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'A fascinating exploration of deer . . . Outstanding natural history writing.' Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

'Extraordinary and absorbing, The Age of Deer proves John Muir's notion that when we pick out one thing in the universe we find it hitched to everything else. Howsare understands that we live in an age of numbness when 'few of us are willing to really feel,' and suggests, through the lives of deer and her experience with them, an elemental antidote.' David Gessner, author of Return of the Osprey and All the Wild That Remains

'By paying close attention to an animal often seen but rarely observed, Howsare reveals that deer are far more mysterious and complicated-and far more deeply embedded in our lives and collective histories-than they may seem. The Age of Deer is a wonderfully perceptive, absorbing, and rewarding exploration of life in all its interconnected forms.' Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

'Erika Howsare has written a fascinating and brilliantly researched book on deer. She has an ear for the conundrums and contradictions of our entanglements with these creatures, who increasingly occupy a middle ground between wild and domestic, survivors of our species' worst predations.' Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World

'A poignant meditation on humanity's relationship with deer . . . [Howsare's] lyrical musings cast her subject in a new light . . . Readers will be enthralled.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'A...


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ISBN 9781785789465
PRICE £20.00 (GBP)
PAGES 368

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