In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, the author investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perfective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we interact with and shape the natural world.

Introduction -- Part 1: Standing. Dancing -- Goods -- The graph -- Value -- Kinfolk -- Part II: Struggling. Capacity -- Decline -- Management -- Should not be -- Bodies -- Pests -- The cull -- Victims -- Part III: Craving. The fetish -- for show -- November dawns -- Craving -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography.