Les luttes de territoire, les moments de jeu, de repos, l’hiver et la saison des amours, les joies, peines, peurs… Toute la vie des chevreuils se déroule sous les yeux attentifs mais pas voyeurs de Geoffroy Delorme qui, à leur contact, réapprend à écouter, voir, sentir, vivre. He spends a good portion of the book moralising about human misbehaviour and mistreatment of nature (which obviously isn’t totally incorrect), but that is somewhat undermined by the hypocrisy and total lack of nuance / painting all of humanity except himself with the poison apple brush.

Varje dag var det en glädje att öppna boken, men glädjen var kortvarig då den bara handlar om en jöns som drar åt skogen där han ägnar sig åt att ge rådjur fruktiga namn. Looking back, I want to tell myself it was just the imagination of a half-awake child, but I remember the awe and the utter fear I felt when the “deer” changed.In his time there, he must survive the damp and cold and feed himself from the forest plants, differentiating the textures of leaves to forage in the dark. Car Delorme explique bien que la sélection naturelle fonctionne très bien, que même s’il n’y a pas de chasse, il n’y aura pas trop de chevreuils. L'homme des bois qui s'harmonise au rythme des chevreuils ou la civilisation thermo-industrielle qui consomment sans modération ?

Each solution is individual ly tailored for you, aiming to deliver your objectives whilst meeting social, economic and environmental targets . Over time he befriends the deer and becomes part of a wild animal family with which he shares moments of joy, sorrow and even fear. What we are left with is a startling portrait of an animal that is both familiar to us and yet shockingly misunderstood. A couple of walkers nod in greeting as they pass, as if it’s customary for a wild deer to snooze in the lap of a human.

Geoffroy's first language is French and we decided that an excerpt would be the best way to introduce people to his riveting book, translated by Shaun Whiteside. As he got older, he would disappear into the woods, drawn to the rhythms of animal life and away from the rules of a society he did not understand.

Daguet, el primer corzo que confió en él, persiguió al desconocido que se había instalado en el bosque, pues era un corzo de naturaleza curiosa, y su relación se fue afianzando. Originally published in 1977 and having since gone out of print, Pugliese’s first and only novel is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a city on the brink of disaster. Coup de cœur pour "L’homme-chevreuil", le récit d’une rencontre entre un homme et le monde sylvestre. En su mochila encontramos: latas de conserva, ropa de abrigo, agua potable, las herramientas necesarias para sobrevivir en un medio hostil y, por supuesto, una cámara. The celebrated naturalist Richard Mabey has long railed against the impulse to use other animals as “some kind of mirror”.

Some of these individuals are extra territorial, some curious, some smart, some drunk, others confused and unsettled by the drunk one, some are enamored of the doe next door, some consider their mating options before settling down, some are polygamous (common) and others give preference to a favourite partner (rare). A moment later, he lifts his head slightly, yawns, looking at me, then rests it against my thigh, near my hand. I enjoyed learning about the lives of roe deer, but would have liked to have learned more about the author’s thoughts and motivations. Yesterday I sat down and decided to start reading it, and get a few chapters in…and ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting! L’humain ne changera pas profondément, radicalement son comportement tant qu’il n’aura pas changé lui-même.