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\"\"Before her latest book, Erika Howsare had often considered deer and how humans interact with them. \u201cI had a hunch that learning about deer would be a great way to ask questions about how humans relate to the natural world in general,\u201d she says, \u201cand that turned out to be even more true than I expected.\u201d The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors<\/em> explores the many ways deer are present in our lives and our mythologies as well as in the natural world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe research process had me reading histories of conservation and scientific papers about deer ecology, traveling to Texas and England and many other places, interviewing scientists and hunters and fawn rehabbers and a guy who picks up roadkill in Michigan, and trolling through art history and literature looking for mentions of deer,\u201d Howsare says. \u201cIt was a delight!\u201d One of her favorite discoveries was that the word wilderness gained its middle syllable from the Old English word deor, meaning \u201cbeast or animal,\u201d tying the word to animals and, specifically, to deer.<\/p>\n

The book will appeal to those \u201cwho like reading about history and science, people who like digging into what\u2019s beneath the cultural ideas we all take for granted, and people who enjoy a new perspective on things that are very familiar and ordinary,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve heard from both hunters and animal lovers who have liked it, and there are a few parts that I hope are just plain good stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors, January 2024, nonfiction, paperback $17.95, hardcover $28, by Erika Howsare, and published by Catapult, New York, NY. Find the book at local bookstores or through Bookshop.org. Learn more at ErikaHowsare.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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