Bücher von Erika Howsare

A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road.From the earliest cave paintings to the present day, humans and deer have a long and complex history. Royal harts were the coveted quarry of European kings, while the first Americans relied on deer for everything from buckskins to arrow heads. Once hunted to the point of extinction in some parts of the world, deer numbers have exploded in recent years, causing tension between scientists and conservationists. And yet, this is our own story, as the fortune of deer is inextricably bound up with the actions that we humans take on the world around us.

How is Travel a Folded Form? is a question that moves through the American landscape, imagining how different eras might interrogate each other. The book revels in the history and peculiarities of the national tourist machine, while remaining rooted in the continent's palpable presence. If this is a travel guide, it is perpetually unfinished, uncertain, wondering and wandering toward a destination as changeable as water.