[PDF] North Country Life eBook

Author : Sydney Lea
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 161608863X

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"A collection of essays, organized by the changing of the seasons, about the author's strong connection to his family, friends, and the northern outdoors"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : HMH
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0544391241

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“A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler’s delight” (Kirkus Reviews). “Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,” North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United States in search of the country’s last unspoiled frontiers (The Boston Sunday Globe). In this vast, sparsely settled territory, Howard Frank Mosher found both a harsh and beautiful landscape and some of the continent’s most independent men and women. Here, he brings this remote area to vivid life in a book “bright with anecdote and history and lore and most importantly with affection for his human subjects” (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day). “A classic road book. You could, with confidence, place this book on the shelf next to such American classics as John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory.” —Detroit Free Press “What Mosher’s northern journey is really about is our society’s loss of Eden, the garden we were promised when we came here. The garden we’ve turned into pulp fiction and rocket ranges. The very fact that this brave book can stir up so many thoughts about the predicaments of civilization is surely an indication that it is well worth reading.” —Ottawa Citizen

Author : Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395828199

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Rhyming verse and illustrations describe the arrival of spring in the north. Includes section with facts about animal behavior.

Author : Beth Powning
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375754234

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The story of a woman's decision to forge a life in the wilderness of the north country.

Author : Sigurd F. Olson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0307761614

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Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America's natural heritage.Based on speeches delivered at town meetings and government hearings, this book joins The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point as the core of Olson's work. Upon its initial publication in 1976, Reflections from the North Country, with Olson's unique combination of lyrical nature writing and activism, became an inspiration to the burgeoning environmental movement, selling over 46,000 copies in hardcover. In this wide-ranging work, Olson evokes the soaring grace of raven, osprey, and eagle, the call of the loon, and the song of the hermit thrush. He challenges the reader to loosen the grasp of technology and the rush of contemporary life and make room for a sense of wonder heightened by being in nature. From evolution to the meaning and power of solitude, Olson meditates on the human condition, offering eloquent testimony to the joys and truths he discovered in his beloved north-country wilderness.