Sigurd F. Olson

The Meaning of Wilderness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 2001, The Meaning ofWilderness gathers the most important of conservation activist and popularwriter Sigurd F. Olson's articles and speeches. Now in paperback, it offers alively look at the evolution of one of environmentalism's leading figures.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780816637096
• ISBN-10: 0816637091
• Artikelnr.: 43043264

Autorenporträt

David Backes is the author of A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson (Minnesota, 1997), winner of the 1998 Small Press Book Award for biography. Backes is also the author of Canoe Country: An Embattled Wilderness (1991) and The Wilderness Companion (1992). (2015) David Backes is the author of A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson (Minnesota, 1997), winner of the 1998 Small Press Book Award for biography.

Inhaltsangabe

contents
Preface
Chronology of Sigurd Olson’s Life
Introduction David Backes
Re¿ections 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