Susan Lindsley once again shows off her photography skills in this first of two books about deer. This one, Whitetail Secrets: Family Life explores the family units among deer. A second book will follow about deer bachelorhood. This edition, Miss Lindsley's eighteenth published volume, offers high-resolution photos of the interaction of some of our favorite animals at their normal day-to-day tasks and at play.
This book, and most of its contents, was originally published in 2018 in both hard-cover and paperback editions. Because the photo quality did not meet the author's desires, she tirelessly worked to enhance the photos and re-issue this "enhanced" version. The paperback version of the original book is still available for sale. Current price at the time this version was released (December 2020) for the paperback edition is $19.95. The book's original description: Susan Lindsley's fifteenth published work puts her photographic skills on display. Her previous books have included Southern-heritage novels, biographies, family histories, books on hunting -- and now she displays her love for wildlife by pointing her camera. Reknown wildlife photographer Duncan Dobie calls Lindsley's location "a one-in-a-million spot under her magical persimmon trees to get good pictures." With more than 200 color photographs, this is special hardcover edition of the book, which is also available in paperback. Wildlife enthusiasts will want this edition for the coffee table.
Author Susan Lindsley attacks the Covid-19 pandemic along with more than twenty-five additional short stories in this collection. Many of the short stories are award winners.
For more than 50 years, Susan Lindsley has observed, photographed and recorded whitetail deer behaviors. The companion books, WHITETAIL SECRETS: Family Life and Bachelor Life reveal many of the not-well-known activities she has photographed. er books chronical She has chronicled the growth of antlers of bucks in the wild, photographed the changes over the year in bucks' scrotum and testicles, captured bucks masturbating, and photographed deer stalking their arch enemy the coyote. Georgia's and the nation's top deer experts have praised these companion books: Dr. Karl V. Miller, referred to as Georgia's deer god; Peter Fiduccia, known as America's Deer Doctor, and leaders in the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Georgia Wildlife Federation. Lindsley presents an inside look at all phases of life for deer in the wild: Some deer dance with joy; many compete for food and romance; family traits are passed through generations; antler patterns persist over years; summer friendships often fail in the autumn; death is usually not an easy end.
Susan Lindsley's latest collection of poetry and pictures carries the reader from Florida to Washington State, on the journey from youth to old age and approaching death, from mountains, valleys and swamps to dancing on rainbows to the songs of meadowlarks. "Yesterplace" is the author's heritage first defined in one of her early books, "Blue Jeans and Pantaloons in Yesterplace."