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Singing Wilderness
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Author : Sigurd F. Olson
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-05-30
Singing Wilderness written by Sigurd F. Olson and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-30 with Nature categories.
To do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silences of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life which is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many places, but I seem to hear it best in the wilderness lake country of the Quetico-Superior, where travel is still by pack and canoe over the ancient trails of the Indians and voyageurs." Thus the author sets the theme and tone of this enthralling book of discovery about one of the few great primitive areas in our country which have withstood the pressures of civilization. Acute natural perceptivity and a profound knowledge of the relationships to be found in nature combine here in vivid evocations of the sights, the sounds, the vast stillnesses, and the events of the wilderness as the seasons succeed each other. But Mr. Olson is not content merely to "describe; he probes for meanings that will lead the reader to a different and more revealing way of looking at the out-of-doors and to a deeper sense of its eternal values. In each of the thirty-four chapters of The Singing Wilderness he has sought to capture an essential quality of our magnificent lake and forest heritage. He shows us what can be read from the rocks of the great Canadian Shield; he offers a delightful essay on the virtues of pine knots as fuel; he writes of the ways of a canoe, of flashing trout in the pools of the Isabella, of tamarack bogs, caribou moss, the flight of wild geese, timber wolves, and the birds of the ski trails. And much more, with something to satisfy every taste for wilderness experience. Superbly illustrated with 38 black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques, The Singing Wilderness is a book that no lover of nature will want to be without. To anyone who contemplates a vacation in the lake country of northern Minnesota and adjoining Canada, it is the perfect vade mecum.
The Singing Wilderness
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Author : Sigurd F. Olson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Singing Wilderness written by Sigurd F. Olson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Natural history categories.
Singing In The Wilderness
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Author : Elizabeth Hunter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Singing In The Wilderness written by Elizabeth Hunter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Fiction in English categories.
The Singing Wilderness Illustrations By Francis Lee Jaques On The Quetico Superior Lake Country
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Author : Sigurd F. Olson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Singing Wilderness Illustrations By Francis Lee Jaques On The Quetico Superior Lake Country written by Sigurd F. Olson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Singing In The Wilderness
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Author : Luana Stoltenberg
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2017-11-17
Singing In The Wilderness written by Luana Stoltenberg and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book showcases the power of Christ to heal and restore people from addictions and traumatic events. Her healing journey with Christ- and the authority of His Word and prayer- allow Luana to speak truth and hope to others who are on the path of self-destruction.
Singing In The Wilderness
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Author : Chace, Isobel
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Release Date : 1976
Singing In The Wilderness written by Chace, Isobel and has been published by Harlequin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Romance fiction categories.
A Private Wilderness
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Author : Sigurd F. Olson
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01
A Private Wilderness written by Sigurd F. Olson and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer Few writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world, its power and fragility, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness, however, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now familiar to us, that Olson documented in the journal entries gathered here. Written mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941, Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills, pursuing recognition, and facing doubt while following the academic career that allowed him to live and work even as it consumed so much of his time. But even as he speaks with immediacy and intensity about the conditions of his apprenticeship, Olson can be seen developing the singular way of observing and depicting the natural world that would bring him fame—and also, more significantly, alert others to the urgent need to understand and protect that world. Author of Olson’s definitive biography, editor David Backes brings a deep knowledge of the writer to these journals, providing critical context, commentary, and insights along the way. When Olson wrote, in the spring of 1941, “What I am afraid of now is that the world will blow up just as I am getting it organized to suit me,” he could hardly have known how right he would prove to be. It is propitious that at our present moment, when the world seems once more balanced on the precipice, we have the words of Sigurd F. Olson to remind us of what matters—and of the hard work and the wonder that such a reckoning requires.
Singing In The Wilderness
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Author : Wilfrid Mellers
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2001
Singing In The Wilderness written by Wilfrid Mellers and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Music categories.
Mellers (composer and professor emeritus, University of York) begins with the confusion of the (unfamiliar) forest within, audible in Wagner's late and Shoenberg's early works, in Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet, and Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. The next section, The Forest Without, examines Charles Koechlin's Le Foret Feerique and Milhaud's Le Boeuf Sur le Toit which embrace the real jungle without and the imaginative jungle within. Part 3 shows Villa-Lobos and Carlos Chavez connecting, as Mellers puts it, "the jungle within the mind and the asphalt jungle of a rapidly industrialized metropolis." Part four explores interrelationships between wilderness and machine through the work of Carl Ruggles, Varese, Partch, Reich, and the Australian, Peter Sculthorpe. Finally, the erasure of border between wilderness and civilization is the focus in works by Ellington and Gershwin. Suitable for both musicians and non-musicians. c. Book News Inc.
Listening Point
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Author : Sigurd F. Olson
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-07-04
Listening Point written by Sigurd F. Olson and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-04 with Nature categories.
“Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole realms of thought and interest. From it I have glimpsed the immensity of space and at times the grandeur of creation. “I believe that I have experienced there one of the oldest satisfactions of man; when as he gazed upon the earth and sky, he sensed the first vague glimmerings of meaning in the universe. I know that while we were born with curiosity and wonder, and our early years are full of the adventure they bring, such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind. “Listening Point is dedicated to rekindling that flame by capturing this almost forgotten sense of wonder, and learning from rocks and trees and all the life that surrounds them truths that can encompass all. “I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one comes sharpens one’s awareness, can one see and hear in the sense in which I use these words. Everyone has a listening point somewhere, some quiet place where he can contemplate the awesome universe. This book is simply the story of what such a place has meant to me. The experiences that have been mine can be known by anyone who will make the effort.” Thus the author of The Singing Wilderness sets the tone of his new book—a book that not only successfully recaptures the to-be-treasured sense of wonder of which he speaks, but also brings to life, in all its essential grandeur, the unparalleled heritage of lakes and rivers and forests we are so fortunate to be able to call our own. Listening Point is a book that will rekindle spirits wearied by the turmoils of twentieth-century living—that will teach us a new way to look at the world around us and to feel the better for it. With 28 magnificent black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jacques.
Singing In The Wilderness
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Author : Patricia Gresley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Singing In The Wilderness written by Patricia Gresley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.