The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
Written by Erika Howsare
Narrated by Erika Howsare
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About this audiobook
Delving into the historical roots of these tangled attitudes and how they play out in the present, Erika Howsare observes scientists capture and collar fawns, hunters show off their trophies, a museum interpreter teaching American history while tanning a deer hide, an animal-control officer collecting the carcasses of deer killed by sharpshooters, and a woman bottle-raising orphaned fawns in her backyard. As she reports these stories, Howsare's eye is always on the bigger picture: Why do we look at deer in the ways we do, and what do these animals reveal about human involvement in the natural world? For fans of H is for Hawk and Fox I, The Age of Deer offers a unique and intimate perspective on a very human relationship.
Editor's Note
Cultural excavation…
Howsare covers the history of deer (in mythology, as game, and beyond) and the modern ways we both protect and prey upon this proliferate and problematic animal in this thoughtful examination. “The Age of Deer” is a natural and cultural excavation approached with tenderness, humor, and analytical insight.
Erika Howsare
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.
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