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A wilderness within : the life of Sigurd F. Olson
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A Wilderness Within looks beyond the environmental battles and books to reveal the inner forces that drove Sigurd Olson. Backes details Olson's painful path to becoming a writer, and the physical a...
A Wilderness Within looks beyond the environmental battles and books to reveal the inner forces that drove Sigurd Olson. Backes details Olson's painful path to becoming a writer, and the physical and emotional toll that his activism and writing took from him. For this biography, Backes conducted interviews with Olson's family and had complete access to Olson's papers, diaries, correspondence, and photographs.
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- Creator
- David Backes
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 387 pages, 16 unnumberd pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0816628424, 9780816628421, 9780816628438, 0816687595, 0816628432, 9780816687596
- OCLC
- ocm36509932, ocn232159953, ocn476094330
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-376) and index.
- 1. Boyhood and Youth, 1899-1916 -- 2. College Years, 1916-1919 -- 3. A Rolling Stone, 1920-1923 -- 4. Northwoods Guide, 1923-1929 -- 5. The Reluctant Ecologist, 1930-1932 -- 6. A Need for Recognition, 1932-1935 -- 7. Storms of Life, 1934-1938 -- 8. The Hidden Life of a Dean, 1936-1940 -- 9. The War Years, 1940-1946 -- 10. A Professional Conservationist, 1946-1949 -- 11. Widening Horizons, 1950-1954 -- 12. The Singing Wilderness, 1950-1956 -- 13. The Search for Balance, 1956-1960 -- 14. From Contemplation to Action : Sigurd Olson's Wilderness Theology, 1959-1964 -- 15. The Making of a Myth, 1960-1982