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CHASING THE DEER

BY NEIL MCINTYRE, SANDSTONE PRESS, £24.99

This impressive photographic portrait of Britain’s largest living land mammal is full of the wild wisdom that comes from spending countless hours outdoors, watching and tracking animals. Neil McIntyre grew up in the Highlands in a deerstalker family and first came face to face with a red when he was just six. “His breath seemed like smoke in the freezing air,” he says. “I remember holding up my hands and realising that one antler would be longer than my arm.”

Now McIntyre is a well-known wildlife photographer, and his lifelong passion for deer shines through in wonderfully atmospheric pictures and brief,