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Scotland’s deer are proving deeply divisive

3 September 2022

9:00 AM

3 September 2022

9:00 AM

Hindsight: In Search of Lost Wilderness Jenna Watt

Birlinn, pp.240, 14.99

On the face of it, a book about a woman stalking one red deer might not sound that exciting. Just one? It’s estimated that there are nearly a million in the Scottish hills and around 60,000 are culled every year. So why write about a single kill? But in HindsightJenna Watt goes far deeper into Scotland’s relationship with red deer.

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