The Age of Deer

Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist for the Library of Virginia People’s Choice Awards Finalist for the Virginia Literary Awards A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer—from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination—and invites readers to contemplate the paradoxes of how humans interact with and shape the natural world Deer have been an important par