Open Horizons

by Olson, Sigurd F.

• ISBN13: 9780816630370
• ISBN10: 0816630372
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

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, wet-lands, 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".

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
1 THE PIPES OF PAN	3	(18)
2 THE WIND'S WILL	21	(18)
3 FEEL OF THE LAND	39	(22)
4 SONG OF THE NORTH	61	(20)
5 BEYOND THE RANGES	81	(30)
6 STREAM OF THE PAST	111	(24)
7 FACE OF THE EARTH	135	(18)
8 A MOUNTAIN LISTENS	153	(20)
9 THE MAKER OF DREAMS	173	(20)
10 BATTLE FOR A WILDERNESS	193	(20)
11 LANDSCAPE OF THE UNIVERSE	213