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Reflections from the North Country
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 27.50Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America's natural heritage.Based on speeches... more...
Singing Wilderness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 25.00to do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silences of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life which is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many places, but I seem to hear it best in the wilderness lake country of the Quetico-Superior,... more...
Of Time and Place
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.95Of 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.... more...
Lonely Land
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 24.95The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: ?There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the Canadian Northwest it can still be done. A thousand... more...
LISTENING POINT
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 27.50? Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole realms of thought and interest. From it I have glimpsed the immensity of space and at times the grandeur of creation. ?I believe that I have experienced... more...
Runes of the North
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 24.00A rune is, in its general meaning, a tale of magic and mystery. To Sigurd Olson it expresses his feelings about the haunting appeal of the wilderness and of the tales and legends to be found there. His runes are legends, yards, and wilderness reflections drawn from the great northern vastness of Canada and Alaska. Whether he is recounting a charming... more...
Wilderness Days
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 18.00In 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... more...
Meaning of Wilderness
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 25.00Despite the enduring popularity of The Singing Wilderness, Listening Point, Reflections from the North Country, and his other books, a major portion of Sigurd F. Olson?s wilderness writing?much of it originating as speeches?has been relatively inaccessible, scattered in a number of magazines and obscure books over a period of more than fifty years,... more...
Open Horizons
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 48.00Illustrated by Leslie KoubaSigurd Olson?s love affair with the wilderness began in a stream near his house in Wisconsin?he caught his first trout there with a tamarack wand, black thread, and a grasshopper as bait. Open Horizons is his autobiography, and in it he recounts a life lived on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions... more...
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