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Gardens of Earthly Delight The History of Deer Parks

Out of Print
By: John Fletcher
284 pages, b/w & col illus
Publisher: Windgather Press
Gardens of Earthly Delight
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  • Gardens of Earthly Delight ISBN: 9781905119363 Paperback Mar 2011 Out of Print #187327
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This is a highly original, profusely illustrated, and well researched account of deer parks. Fletcher touches on errors commonly made by archaeologists and historians, taking issue with long held theories while drawing on his lifetime working with deer to formulate plausible explanations as to, for example, why they were not domesticated until the 20th century, why deer parks were created throughout Eurasia, why fallow so rapidly ousted red deer from medieval British parks and much more.

He ranges from meat sharing amongst chimpanzees to the symbolism of venison as the elite product of hunting to the 300 year long prohibition on its sale within England. He stresses the cross-cultural importance of rulers being seen to hunt and compares ancient Chinese parks, the colossal Asian ring hunts and the water hunts of Germany as expressions of man's urge to contain deer.

Within Britain, which has for a thousand years held more deer parks than any other part of the world, he describes how deer were fed, transported, enclosed, captured, castrated and housed and how they were hunted in the confines of parks. Recently, parks provided deer for English carted hunts and Scottish sporting estates; now we recognise their ecological and recreational value. We learn how parklands may be our spiritual home - the environment in which we are most content - and that parks have always been, in a fashion, designed landscapes.

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Out of Print
By: John Fletcher
284 pages, b/w & col illus
Publisher: Windgather Press
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