In the evocative words of one of America’s best-loved nature writers, Wilderness Days brings together the essence of the magnificent wilderness with which he so deeply identifies. Sigurd F. Olson collects from his writings those moments that most vividly depict the turn of the seasons in the great woodlands and waters of the legendary Quetico–Superior region overlapping the Ontario–Minnesota border.
In the evocative words of one of America’s best-loved nature writers, Wilderness Days brings together the essence of the magnificent wilderness with which he so deeply identifies. Sigurd F. Olson collects from his writings those moments that most vividly depict the turn of the seasons in the great woodlands and waters of the legendary Quetico–Superior region overlapping the Ontario–Minnesota border.
Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982) was one of the most influential environmentalists of the twentieth century. An award-winning conservation activist and best-selling author, he introduced a generation of Americans to the importance of wilderness.
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Contents Author’s Note Prologue: My Wilderness World Spring The Winds of March No Place Between The Loons of Lac la Croix The Feel of Spring The Storm The Sound of Rain Witching Hours Silence Young Ottertail Summer The Way of a Canoe The Portage Stream of the Past White Horses The Falls Ghost Camps of the North Painted Rocks The Ross Light Campfires Autumn Falling Leaf Wild Rice Pine Knots Beaver Cutting Smoky Gold Caribou Hunter’s Moon Scrub Oak Winter Coming of the Snow Northern Lights Timber Wolves The River Dark House The Spawning Trapper’s Cabin Wilderness Music Epilogue Map Section
Contents Author’s Note Prologue: My Wilderness World Spring The Winds of March No Place Between The Loons of Lac la Croix The Feel of Spring The Storm The Sound of Rain Witching Hours Silence Young Ottertail Summer The Way of a Canoe The Portage Stream of the Past White Horses The Falls Ghost Camps of the North Painted Rocks The Ross Light Campfires Autumn Falling Leaf Wild Rice Pine Knots Beaver Cutting Smoky Gold Caribou Hunter’s Moon Scrub Oak Winter Coming of the Snow Northern Lights Timber Wolves The River Dark House The Spawning Trapper’s Cabin Wilderness Music Epilogue Map Section
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