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The Gift of the Deer Helen Hoover |
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One Christmas Eve an emaciated deer stumbled across the yard of Helen Hoover's remote cabin in northern Minnesota. Barely surviving the brutal winter, gaunt from starvation, blind in one eye from a hunting wound, he became the central character in Hoover's best-selling book, The Gift of the Deer. Hoover and her husband Adrian named this deer Peter and nursed him back to health, setting out cedar branches, corn, and carrots. From that Christmas on, the Hoovers observed Peter and his growing clan for four years. Hoover relates the story of these deer, including the birth of new fawns, the danger of predators, even the amusing way a mother deer teaches "manners" to her young. The Gift of the Deer, first published in 1966, sold over 50,000 copies and is Hoover's best-selling book. It is now available in an inexpensive paperback edition that is beautifully illustrated by Adrian Hoover. Readers young and old will delight in this touching story of two North Woods families. "Hoover fills in the background with a wealth of knowledge and observation, not only about the deer, but about birds, trees, wild flowers, the whole natural background. But the book is primarily about the deer, and that is its lasting virtue." —New York Times Book Review "Gentle and evocative. Whether you're an active or vicarious woodswoman, you can count on Hoover to bring you into the forest with her, sharing her quiet adventures." —Minnesota Women's Press Helen Hoover (1910-1984) is the author of several books, including The Years of the Forest (1973), The Long-Shadowed Forest (1963), A Place in the Woods (1969), and Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman (2005). Before moving to the remote wilderness of northern Minnesota in 1954, she was an accomplished chemist. 224 pages | 14 line illustrations | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1998 |
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