Wilderness North
Author | : Dan D. Gapen |
Publisher | : Becker, Minn. : Whitewater Publications |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780932985002 |
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Author | : Dan D. Gapen |
Publisher | : Becker, Minn. : Whitewater Publications |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780932985002 |
Author | : Ted Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780671690885 |
This captivating combination of history, research, and storytelling presents the collective biography of the ordinary people who tamed this rugged continent and formed our nation. 11 maps; illustrations. Featured at the National American History Conference.
Author | : John Owens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) |
ISBN | : 9781517909505 |
A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It's a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination? Come along--join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature's infinite wildness one summer up north.
Author | : Lauren Danner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874223521 |
North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by the National Park Service¿s policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service¿s policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies. Their activism eventually led to the 1968 creation of a crown jewel--Washington¿s magnificent third national park. This engaging account tells the story.
Author | : Elliott Merrick |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2010-09-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1583943005 |
The enthralling memoir of a 1930s couple whose passion for nature led them on a winter’s-long hunting trek through one of the most remote regions of Canada While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was twenty-four-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions. True North tells the captivating story of one of the high points of Merrick’s years there: a hunting trip he and his wife, Kay, made with trapper John Michelin in 1930. Covering 300 miles over a harsh winter, they experienced an unexplored realm of nature at its most intense and faced numerous challenges. Merrick accidentally shot himself in the thigh and almost cut off his toe. Freezing cold and hunger were constant. Nonetheless, the group found beauty and even magic in the stark landscape. The couple and the trappers bonded with each other and their environment through such surprisingly daunting tasks as fabricating sunglasses to avoid snow blindness and learning to wash underwear without it freezing. Merrick’s intimate style, rich with narrative detail, brings readers into a dramatic story of survival and shares the lesson the Merricks learned: that the greatest satisfaction in life can come from the simplest things.
Author | : Doug Bennet |
Publisher | : M & S |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9780771011160 |
An indispensable guide to learning about things that go bump in the night and are forever sucking your blood in the wilderness. Easily carried in a knapsack or coat pocket, "Up North" provides fascinating facts about the flora, fauna and other natural phenomena readers are likely to encounter outdoors in Ontario. Illustrations. color photos.
Author | : Jim Wark |
Publisher | : Universe Pub |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780789320773 |
Features aerial photographs of the North American wilderness, and presents essays that chronicle the efforts made to expand and protect the areas throughout history.
Author | : Jess Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2021-04-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Sam West thought he knew what it was like to feel alone in the world. He had spent the better part of his childhood abandoned by his mother, neglected by his alcoholic father, and ignored by every foster parent he was sent to. Sam decides to find his mother in search of a future with the woman he barely remembers. But when his bush plane crashes in Northern Ontario, a vast expanse of untamed wilderness, Sam is the sole survivor and utterly alone.Determined to live and somehow make it back to civilization, Sam uses every ounce of knowledge to fight the elements, the treacherous predators, and most of all, to keep his head in the game of survival. After a near-death encounter with a bear shakes him to his core, the appearance of a mysterious mountain man surprises him the most.Together, they embark upon a long journey to find the world again, a world that will be forever different to these survivors. But Sam also finds something he never thought possible; he finds the friendship and the love he always wanted, forged in the solitary landscape of the wilderness. This teen and young adult wilderness story is a treat for those who relish wilderness survival thriller and adventure books. The unputdownable suspense filled novel is an educational and highly entertaining read -- teaching the art of bushcraft and more importantly, the art of living.
Author | : George Erickson |
Publisher | : Globe Pequot |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Air travel |
ISBN | : 9781592281565 |
"Erickson, a rugged individualist if ever there was one, knows his stuff. Erickson misses little, describing the natural wonders of the region, the people who dwell at the remote outposts where gasoline costs nearly as much as good cognac, and the adventures of the first explorers to the great White North, including trappers, Jesuits and prospectors for gold." --Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "A blend of stunning landscapes, wildlife, myths, and experience, True North reveals Erickson's love of nature and his passion for truth." --The Humanist Leaving behind the comforts of civilized life and armed with only a few essentials, dentist-turned-bush pilot GEORGE ERICKSON captures the exhilarating thrill of roughing it in the wild, flying his Piper Cub Special seaplane into the far reaches of the north. Nearly losing his life--twice--Erickson sets up camp on unexplored lakes and rivers, fishes for trout, struggles with bad weather, dodges forest fires, and and mingles with polar bears, killer whales, musk oxen, and caribou. In the spirit of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Charles Lindbergh, and other great aviators, he is an engaging traveling companion. This is much more than a travelogue, however, as Canada's Reader's Showcase aptly describes: "Erickson applies a rare love to the rough, dangerous, and frankly, really, really far-flung lands of the Canadian sub-Arctic. He proves himself to be an expert and avid pilot, storyteller, philosopher, environmentalist, dreamer, and perhaps most impressively, fashioner of some really cool fishing lures." Replete with personal detail, scientific observation, and historical facts--the most chilling being the story of a group of explorers who starved to death in the very cabin he is visiting--TRUE NORTH is an extraordinary travel narrative that will appeal to flying enthusiasts and armchair travelers alike.
Author | : Dan Gapen, Sr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780932985101 |
Hardback book with 662 pages of wilderness stories. Fishing, hunting, trapping, and wilderness animals are all part of this entertaining reading. 30 pages of color photographs, with vivid pictures from far northern Arctic to South America.