Sigurd F. Olson

Of Time and Place (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Of Time and Place is a legacy from one of the best-loved woodsman writers of our time. To the outdoorsmen who often canoed and portaged with him through the northern Lake country, Sigurd Olson was affectionately known as the Bourgeois-the name that voyageurs gave two hundred years ago to the trusted guides who took them over this same territory. And in this, his last book, completed just before his death in early 1982, Olson is our guide through his wide-ranging memories of a lifetime dedicated to the preservation of the wilderness, especially of his beloved Quetico-Superior country. He recalls his many friendships of trail and woods and portage, his favorite campsites, the stories behind the artifacts and mementos hanging in his cabin at Listening Point. He muses on the fragile beauty of the prairies, on the significance of ancient trails, on the resonance and the origins of place names. Whether he is remembering the day when he caught his first brook trout, or admiring the playful grace of the otter, or pondering the earth's great cycles of climatic change, these moving and evocative essays reaffirm Audubon magazine's celebration of Sigurd Olson as "the poetic voice of the modern wilderness movement."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307822284
• Artikelnr.: 39206318

Autorenporträt

Sigurd F. Olson, born in 1899, was one of our country's best-known ecologists and interpretative naturalists. Educated at Northland College (where there is now an Institute of Scientific Studies named for him) and at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois, he held a number of honorary degrees and was recognized nationally with numerous awards for his writing and his environmental activities. For the last thirty-five years Sigurd Olson devoted himself entirely to writing and to building awareness and appreciation of wildnerness everywhere. He was president of the Wilderness Society and of the National Parks Association. He served as a consultant to the Department of Interior and many conservation organizations. His books include The Singing Wilderness (1951), Listening Point (1958), Runes of the North (1963), and most recently, Reflections from the North Country (1976). Until his death in 1982, he lived with his wife, Elizabeth, in Ely, Minnesota.