Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Offerman's reflective turn to the land, three journeys, from backpacking with George Saunders to a Scottish sheep farm, wrestling with nature and how to live.
Written partly during the pandemic, Offerman’s most reflective book gathers his musings on land, farming, and the outdoors, framed by three journeys: a backpacking trip with novelist George Saunders and musician Jeff Tweedy, time on a Scottish sheep farm, and a road trip through the American West. Between the jokes he wrestles earnestly with conservation, agriculture, and how a comfortable American ought to live on a fragile planet. It is his turn toward the naturalist tradition.
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