SIGURD F. OLSON'S WILDERNESS DAYS : A Season-By-Season Selection of the Best-Loved Writings of One of America's Best-Loved Nature Writers
by Sigurd F. Olson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394471555
- ISBN 13
- 9780394471556
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New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition, 7th Printing, 1985 7th Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. J. Arnold Bolz (Photographers); Frances Lee Jaques, Robert Hines & Keskue C. Kouba (Illustrations). Text/NEW & Bright. 1972 First Edition, 7th Printing of 1984. Gilt embossed brown linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge & surface wear. Anthology of nature essays from environmentalist Sigurd F. Olson (1899 - 1982). Like Olson's first book, The Singing Wilderness (1956), this volume is also sensitive to our natural world's response to seasonal changes. This volume covers Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter visits to the vast, virgin regions north & northwest of Lake Superior, from Minnesota and Ontario to the Arctic --- vignettes of very quiet parts of our world. 233 pgs w/line drawings, 14, full-color landscapes from the lens of photographer J. Arnold Bolz introducing each season, and maps to rear by David Lindroth..
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- Title
- SIGURD F. OLSON'S WILDERNESS DAYS : A Season-By-Season Selection of the Best-Loved Writings of One of America's Best-Loved Nature Writers
- Author
- Sigurd F. Olson
- Illustrator
- J. Arnold Bolz (Photographers); Frances Lee Jaques, Robert Hines & Keskue C. Kouba (Illustrations)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 7th Printing, 1985 7th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394471555
- ISBN 13
- 9780394471556
- Publisher
- Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 233
- Keywords
- Anthology/Nature/Ecology/Prose Narratives
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ecology;
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