Product Description: 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...read more

The widely known naturalist combines reminiscence and observation in eloquent accounts of the land, animal life, plants, and sheer wonder of the northern United States, Alaska, Canada's northwest provinces, and the Arctic (view table of contents)

The author recounts his experiences fishing, traveling, and exploring wilderness areas in the United States and Canada (view table of contents)

The author, a life-long nature enthusiast, writes of the challenges nature has offered him in his travels in northern Wisconsin and throughout Canada (view table of contents)

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Many people have a special place where they go to experience nature. Perhaps it is a cabin, or a campsite, or a favorite hiking trail. For Sigurd Olson it was a bare glaciated spit of rock in the magnificent Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota. He called it his Listening Point, and it is at the center of his book of the same name.Listening Point is Olson's second book, with over 40,000 copies sold in hardcover. Strikingly illustrated with drawings by Francis Lee Jaques, this book tells the story of Olson's Listening Point from his first night sleeping there under the stars to the eventual building of a cabin. "From this one place I would explore the entire north and all life, including my own", he writes. "For me it would be a listening-post from which I might even hear the music of the spheres".Through deeply personal stories, Olson brings life in the woods alive. He traces the history of a fallen leaf, explains the power of a canoe paddle cutting through the water, and the magic of listening to the rain pour on his tent flaps."Listening Point is dedicated to recapturing this almost forgotten sense of wonder and learning from rocks and trees and all the life that is found there, truths that can encompass all", he writes. "Through a vein of rose quartz at its tip can be read the geological history of the planet, from an old pine stump the ecological succession of the plant kingdom, from an Indian legend the story of the dreams of all mankind".Considered by some to contain Olson's most vivid and moving passages, Listening Point is the nature lover's companion for hearing the depth and beauty of the great outdoors."With a poet's lyric voice, a guide's authorityand a warrior's commitment to his beloved canoe country wilderness, Sig Olson became the 'Voice of the North' to a generation of readers. He stands comfortably among the pantheon of great American nature writers -- Thoreau and Muir, Burroughs and Krutch, Leopold, Eiseley and Teale; but like one of his great sentinel pines, he also stands alone". Douglas Wood, author of Old Turtle (view table of contents)

The author recreates the beauty, simplicity, and timelessness of primitive life in the uncivilized Quetico-Superior country (view table of contents)

The northern regions of Canada and Alaska provide the setting for a collection of legends and folk yarns (view table of contents)

Selected essays describe the natural beauty of northern Minnesota and Canada, and share the author's experiences in the wild

Photographs reveal an intimate view of the forest and its inhabitants, with essays showing its beauty and meaning

Essays discuss conservation, rapids, lakes, portages, wildlife, and the Quetico-Superior Wilderness

Product Description: Sugmound F. Olson was an American author, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario...read more

Product Description: Third printing in clean bright original dust jacket. Clean green pebbled cloth boards with stamped ducks in flight on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers...read more