The complete outdoorsman looks back on fifty years of wilderness adventures to find answers to today's questions. Though he began his life as a Twin Cities resident, Calvin Rutstrum came to see noise, material wealth, and perpetual frenzy as the narcotics of the city dweller. Like Henry David Thoreau, he set out to live a simpler, more meaningful life. In his pursuit, Rutstrum came to appreciate the natural world and the skills necessary to survive in it. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part environmental treatise, ...
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The complete outdoorsman looks back on fifty years of wilderness adventures to find answers to today's questions. Though he began his life as a Twin Cities resident, Calvin Rutstrum came to see noise, material wealth, and perpetual frenzy as the narcotics of the city dweller. Like Henry David Thoreau, he set out to live a simpler, more meaningful life. In his pursuit, Rutstrum came to appreciate the natural world and the skills necessary to survive in it. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part environmental treatise, Once upon a Wilderness is a treasury of wilderness wisdom. Rutstrum reminisces about lessons that his time in the wilderness has taught him. He writes about a range of backcountry issues, including environmental preservation, cultural sensitivity toward Native Americans, the urban versus the rural, and the artistic value of practical skills. Through his thoughtful consideration of the pleasure and value of wilderness, Rutstrum offers a clarion call for a saner, more socially responsible and environmentally sensitive way of living.
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Good condition. Minor edgewear, sunning/fading to spine. The only real condition issue is the previous owner wrote a price on the back cover under the upc code. Otherwise in nice condition. All intact. No writing or marking inside text pages.
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Very Good. Very Good-Dust Jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Stated 1st printing. Very good hardcover in very good-dust jacket, from a private collection. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, 181 pages, with 60 B & W photographs. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise text very good. Red dot on top edge (presumably a remainder mark). Sticker ghost on front board, otherwise shelfwear is minimal. Clipped DJ has rubbing, a vertical crease on front, and some small closed tears along edges. DJ now protected in Mylar wraps. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0026063301. B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 181 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $6.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Text clean and unmarked. Wraparound pictorial jacket is lightly shelf rubbed with a few tiny nicks at edges; front flap has mild vertical stress creases. Prior owner reinforced the bottom edge of the jacket with a short piece of tansparent tape to the blank reverse surface of the jacket. Illustrated with b&w photos. Solid clean copy. VG++/VG.
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Very Good in Very Good- jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Macmillan, 1973; stated First Printing, no later printings indicated; 181pp., 60 photographs by the author. Very good hardcover in very good-dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of blue cloth boards, silver foil titling remains bright and bold; text very good; small remainder dot on bottom edge of page block. Light wear to edges of unclipped ($6.95) dust jacket, creasing to front edge of front flap; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.