BOOKED UP: FOX, HORSE, DEER

BOOKED UP: FOX, HORSE, DEER

The Warrenton Horse Show is pleased to announce that writer Jack Russell (that’s right) will be on hand to sign copies of his book Fox World on Sunday, September 4 at 6 p.m. as part of the Hunt Night Festivities. Mr. Fox’s story of animal courage and spirituality is based on true events. The reader is taken under the canopy of an urban forest on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. for a year-long walk with a weary sales executive and his muse, a wild red fox. Aged, ill and injured, both fox and man seek healing in their journey, not only for themselves, but for the ecologically stressed forest that is under siege. Drawn in by the fox’s courage and the plight of his forest as destruction looms, the man decides to take a stand and help the fox and his animal friends. Richly graced with gorgeous nature photos and infused with insights that can only be imparted by those who have come to genuinely appreciate life, Fox World is an exhilarating walk in the woods you’ll never forget. The showgrounds are located at 60 E. Shirley Avenue in Warrenton. For more information, visit https://warrentonhorseshow.com/ horseshow.cfm.

In HORSE, one of the hottest new books around, it’s all about a discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in the attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history. Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks has written a captivating story of courage, obsession and inequality across our history. Available at Second Chapter Books in Middleburg.

In Deer Man, writer Geoffroy Delorme also steps into the woods. He describes becoming a creature of the forest, working to blend in with the deer without disrupting them, and living without a tent or sleeping bag. Slowly, the deer allow him into their world. He witnesses births and deaths, loves and battles, ostracism and friendship over the cycles of their lives. Above all, he experiences the beauty, pain, fear, and the joy of a life lived within nature, not separate from it. In his seventh year in the forest, Delorme meets a woman walking through the trees. He knows he can stay in the forest and die with his friends, or he can leave, and speak their truth and wisdom to a human world that desperately needs to hear it. Published by Greystone Books and available on Amazon.