Of Time and Place Of Time and Place

Of Time and Place

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Descrizione dell’editore

Of Time and Place is a legacy from one of the best-loved woodsman writers of our time. To the outdoorsmen who often canoed and portaged with him through the northern Lake country, Sigurd Olson was affectionately known as the Bourgeois—the name that voyageurs gave two hundred years ago to the trusted guides who took them over this same territory. And in this, his last book, completed just before his death in early 1982, Olson is our guide through his wide-ranging memories of a lifetime dedicated to the preservation of the wilderness, especially of his beloved Quetico-Superior country.

He recalls his many friendships of trail and woods and portage, his favorite campsites, the stories behind the artifacts and mementos hanging in his cabin at Listening Point. He muses on the fragile beauty of the prairies, on the significance of ancient trails, on the resonance and the origins of place names. Whether he is remembering the day when he caught his first brook trout, or admiring the playful grace of the otter, or pondering the earth’s great cycles of climatic change, these moving and evocative essays reaffirm Audubon magazine’s celebration of Sigurd Olson as “the poetic voice of the modern wilderness movement.”

GENERE
Scienza e natura
PUBBLICATO
1982
12 giugno
LINGUA
EN
Inglese
PAGINE
172
EDITORE
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
DIMENSIONE
8,1
MB

Altri libri di Sigurd F Olson

Runes of the North Runes of the North
1963
Lonely Land Lonely Land
1961
LISTENING POINT LISTENING POINT
1958
Singing Wilderness Singing Wilderness
1956
Reflections from the North Country Reflections from the North Country
1976