Yet one suspects this is the only kind of testimony that could come from someone who has, in many ways, eschewed the human world.

La mirada de los animales fotografiados me va a acompañar mucho tiempo porque, a modo de conclusión, resume brevemente la historia natural de los bosques y juzga tanto la caza como la explotación forestal intensiva. The celebrated naturalist Richard Mabey has long railed against the impulse to use other animals as “some kind of mirror”. On les voit dans les prairies et potagers, non pas parce qu’il y en a trop, mais parce qu’ils ont trop peu de forêt / sous-bois / nourriture.Den här boken handlar om en jöns som drar åt skogen där han ägnar sig åt att ge rådjur fruktiga namn. Before my father sold his house here in the mountains, every night in winter, at the same time every night, around 20 deer would appear out of the trees and come into the backyard where my father would be spreading corn along the ground for them to eat. Another contraction, then another, when, all of a sudden, out comes the young fawn, falling to the ground: bam!

J'aurais aimé en apprendre plus sur son retour à la civilisation, qui est seulement évoqué dans le dernier chapitre et l'épilogue. He casts his metropolitan world behind and relocates to the sumptuous national forest of Louviers, Normandy to live with the deer and immerse himself in the wilderness for seven years. A unique and powerful window into how far one human is willing to go to understand an animal, Deer Man asks us to never take for granted the flora and fauna of our world, and to work for their protection in whatever ways we can. An unnamed 14 year old witness was playing at his cousin's house near sunset when he spotted a creature emerging from the brush. One night, an encounter with a deer changed his life: from then on, he knew he wanted to live among them.He uses “we” freely, not only to tell us what he and the deer are doing but in ways suggestive of emotional and psychic entanglement. Geoffroy menosprecia la sociedad del despilfarro y es crítico con una economía que amenaza con hundirse. As the chapters unfold, Delorme recedes even further from the narrative, mirroring his gradual withdrawal from civilisation and home.