Wilderness days [electronic resource] / Sigurd F. Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Sigurd F., 1899-1982.

Series:

Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.

The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Outdoor books.

Natural history.

Nature.

Outdoor life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Minnesota Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Originally published as Sigurd F. Olson's wilderness days: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972.

ISBN:

0-8166-7948-7

OCLC:

801412573