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"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."… (altro)
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Nice story - unusual setting, of course, and evolving main character. Written in third person, which is unusual for an 'autobiography'. Many misprints in this edition; missing content (I forget the page number) - but doesn't wreck the reading of it. ( )
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This book is dedicated to my wife Helen, for withot her help and supports this book would never have been written. Also to the men of Alcatraz, convicts and guards alike, and to Lou Peters, my old cell partner, and to the memory of Johnny House. Also the memory of my beloved Wolf Dog Winter.
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It had been a long morning, and while repairing shoes his legs were beginning to tire from standing on the hard concrete floor.
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"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."
Written in third person, which is unusual for an 'autobiography'.
Many misprints in this edition; missing content (I forget the page number) - but doesn't wreck the reading of it. ( )