The meaning of wilderness : essential articles and speeches / Sigurd F. Olson ; edited and with an introduction by David Backes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Sigurd F., 1899-1982.

Contributor:

Backes, David.

Series:

Outdoor Essays & Reflections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--North America.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite 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, or never published at all. The Meaning of Wilderness gathers together the most important of Olson's articles and speeches, making them available in one place for the first time. The book also contains an introduction and chapter-by-chapter commentar

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Chronology of Sigurd Olson's Life; Introduction; Reflections of a Guide (1928); Search for the Wild (1932); The Romance of Portages (1936); Let's Go Exploring (1937); Why Wilderness? (1938); Flying In (1945); We Need Wilderness (1946); The Preservation of Wilderness (1948); The Quetico-Superior Wilderness Laboratory (1951); Those Intangible Things (1954); Our Need of Breathing Space (1958); Beauty Belongs to All (1959); The Spiritual Aspects of Wilderness (1961); The Wilderness Concept (1962); The Spiritual Need (1966)

Remarks to National Park Service Master Plan Team Members (mid-1960s)What Is Wilderness? (1968); A Longing for Wilderness (1973); Writings by Sigurd F. Olson; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9231-9

OCLC:

476095023