Originally published as Sigurd F. Olson's wilderness days: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972.
Sigurd F. Olson Boeken
4 april 1899 – 13 januari 1982
Sigurd F. Olson was een Amerikaanse auteur, milieuactivist en voorvechter van de bescherming van de wildernis. Meer dan dertig jaar lang werkte hij als wildernisgids in de meren en bossen van het Quetico-Superior-gebied in Noord-Minnesota en Noordoost-Ontario. Hij stond bekend als de Bourgeois — een term die de oude voyageurs gebruikten voor hun vertrouwde leiders. Zijn geschriften vieren de diepe schoonheid en het vitale belang van de natuurlijke wereld.
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and portaged with him through this wilderness, he was known honorifically as the Bourgeois--as the voyageurs of old called their trusted leaders through this same region.
In Runes of the North Sigurd F. Olson explores the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him, weaving the tales and myths with his own stories and experiences as an explorer, writer, grandfather, and biologist. Now available in paperback for the first time, Runes of the North is a mystical and reflective guide to the northern wilderness written with a oneness and communion with nature that is unique to Olson's pen. It is a work filled with beauty, wisdom, and renewal.
Lonely Land (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)
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.
This giant 3.5 lb 9x12 Hardbound book is loaded with 363 illustrations (302 in full color), maps and essays on the nation's wilderness.
