Olson's inspirational life story, told in his own words, now available in paperback. Sigurd Olson's love affair with the wilderness began in a stream near his house in Wisconsin-he caught his first trout there with a tamarack wand, black thread, and a grasshopper as bait. Open Horizons is his autobiography, and in it he recounts a life lived on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions to decades-long conservation battles. Writing always with the sensitive, lyric prose that characterizes his ...
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Olson's inspirational life story, told in his own words, now available in paperback. Sigurd Olson's love affair with the wilderness began in a stream near his house in Wisconsin-he caught his first trout there with a tamarack wand, black thread, and a grasshopper as bait. Open Horizons is his autobiography, and in it he recounts a life lived on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions to decades-long conservation battles. Writing always with the sensitive, lyric prose that characterizes his works, Olson recalls his pioneering youth on a remote Wisconsin farm, his summers as a wilderness canoe guide, and his thousands of miles of travel through the wilds of this country and Canada. "Open Horizons is the story of the unknowns I have discovered, and gone through," he writes. While telling his story, Olson makes a compelling case for preserving the wilderness. He puts forth his own life as an example of how nature can have a spiritual effect on the human soul, and proposes diligence on behalf of those who fight to conserve our forests, wetlands, and dunes. "If we can move into an open horizon where we can live in our modern world with ancient dreams that have always stirred us, then our work will have been done." ISBN 0-8166-3037-2 Paper $14.95 256 pages 12 line drawings 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 September Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press
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Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 246 p. Contains: Illustrations. Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Illustrated by Leslie Kouba. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1974, 5th printing. Blue boards are lightly faded along the edges and the spine. Some light spine lean. Page fore-edges are freckled. Blanks are freckled. Price-clipped DJ. DJ spine is lightly sun darkened. Several small closed tears repaired with tape but barely noticable in a protective brodart. Light chipping to DJ spine extremeties and corners, with light surface rubbing. Copy sounds worse than it actually appears.; B&W Illustrations; 23A; 229 pages.
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Near Fine in very good jacket. 1969 Edition not stated. Hardcover, in Near Fine condition, with very light shelf wear. The dust jacket is in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear. Else a clean, tight and sharp copy.
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Very Good. pp. 246. Softcover Paperback with only minor reading wear; small, faint stain on fore-edge, otherwise book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.
