· In this classic collection of essays set in what is now the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota, and the Quetico National Park in Ontario, Olson masterfully narrates in thirty-three essays spread out over all four seasons the geology, flora, and fauna of the great north www.doorway.ru: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Great book--"The Singing Wilderness" consists of a series of essays by the outdoorsman and naturist, Sigurd Olson. The essays are ordered by season, from canoeing in the summer to snowshoeing in the Winter. Olson spent a lot of time during his life in the Quetico-Superior wilderness area in /5. Description from the book flap: "The Singing Wilderness" has to 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 simply joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life which is close to the past.5/5(6).
The Singing Wilderness Sigurd F. Olson Snippet view - The Singing Wilderness Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and. Sigurd F. Olson Journal Entries The Singing Wilderness. The Singing Wilderness, published by Alfred A. Knopf in , was Sigurd Olson's first book, and it was immensely successful, becoming a classic of American nature www.doorway.ru Sigurd himself, it was the culmination of a long and hard-fought dream. Get this from a library! The singing wilderness. [Sigurd F Olson; Francis Lee Jaques] -- ""The Singing Wilderness has to do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silence of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the.
In this classic collection of essays set in what is now the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota, and the Quetico National Park in Ontario, Olson masterfully narrates in thirty-three essays spread out over all four seasons the geology, flora, and fauna of the great north woods. Superbly illustrated with 38black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques, The Singing Wilderness is a book that no lover of nature will want to be without. To anyone who contemplates a vacation in the lake country of northern Minnesota and adjoining Canada, it is the perfect vade mecum. Great book--"The Singing Wilderness" consists of a series of essays by the outdoorsman and naturist, Sigurd Olson. The essays are ordered by season, from canoeing in the summer to snowshoeing in the Winter. Olson spent a lot of time during his life in the Quetico-Superior wilderness area in Northern Minnesota.
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