Sigurd F. Olson war ein amerikanischer Autor, Umweltschützer und Verfechter des Schutzes der Wildnis. Über dreißig Jahre lang war er als Wildnisführer in den Seen und Wäldern des Quetico-Superior-Landes in Nord-Minnesota und Nordost-Ontario tätig. Er war ehrenhalber als Bourgeois bekannt – ein Begriff, den die alten voyageurs für ihre vertrauenswürdigen Anführer verwendeten. Seine Schriften zelebrieren die tiefe Schönheit und die lebenswichtige Bedeutung der natürlichen Welt.
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.
Originally published as Sigurd F. Olson's wilderness days: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972.
Lonely Land (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)
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.
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.
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.