Verena Andermatt Conley

The War Against the Beavers

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Produktbeschreibung

A lifelong city dweller, Verena Andermatt Conley had long harbored romantic ideals about the natural world and dreamed of a wilderness retreat for herself and her husband, Tom. When a sizable tract of land along the Vermillion River on the edge of Minnesota's Boundary Waters - complete with two primitive log cabins - became available, they jumped at the chance to own a piece of paradise. The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two people's ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living, from their arrival as literal babes in the woods to their education in the ways of nature as they face plagues of insects, fungus, storms, and droughts, and embark on a lengthy campaign to eradicate a colony of beavers that threatens the peace and beauty of their forest refuge. It is only the coming of a mechanized and much more menacing threat - bulldozers and other heavy machinery clear-cutting the woods - that restores perspective to the obsessed cabin dwellers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 167
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780816642182
• ISBN-10: 0816642184
• Artikelnr.: 22242666

Autorenporträt

Verena Andermatt Conley was born and raised in Switzerland, where she grew up reading picturesque and adventurous portrayals of the great American wilderness. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents AcknowledgementsPrologue: A Cabin in the WildernessPart I. Babes
in the Woods Heading for the Wilderness Home Alone at the Cabin Summer
Pleasures Forest Paths The Art of Ricing Winter Pleasures Of Mice and Men
Round-robin with the Weasels Icy Roads Cabin Opener Tree-Planting Ceremony
Bruno the Bear Blueberry Hill Raspberry Picking Devastation Part II. The
War Against the BeaversThe War Begins Jim Rondeau Strange Bedfellows Tree
Nailing Nature Attacks The First Trapper A New Beaver Dam The Logging
Letter A Tour with the "Forest Coordinator"Amos, the Eco-Trapper Edna, the
Woodswoman More Beaver Stories The First Victim A Silent Spring A New
Plague Urbanization The Beavers Return Joe Ahearn Big Timber Wolves More
Chaos "Nature's Ways" Back to Blueberry Hill Epilogue