Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild (The World As Home) - Softcover

Gruchow, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571312358 ISBN 13: 9781571312358

Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1999

Synopsis

Organized by the seasons of the year, Boundary Waters explores the 2.5 million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area that straddles the United States-Canada border near Lake Superior. Gruchow turns a naturalist's eye on a wilderness of wolves, moose, and loons as he visits national parks and other scenic spots. Drawing on the works of Thoreau and Wendell Berry, he explores the relationship of person to place.

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From the Back Cover:

A journey of the spirit through four seasons, Paul Gruchow's Boundary Waters is an ecstatic contemplation of nature and our place in it from a writer of great poise and power. These boundary waters--straddling the border between northern Minnesota and Ontario--are a vast network of forest and thousands of lakes, isolated and pristine. It is to this landscape that Gruchow turns in an attempt to better define himself and his place in nature. As he did in Grass Roots: The Universe of Home, Paul Gruchow again demonstrates that he can explore the relationship of person to place magnificently, illuminating not only our lands, but our souls.

From the Inside Flap:

Armchair travelers and real-life trekkers will welcome this fully revised and updated edition of Jeremy Bernstein's In the Himalayas. In this book, Berstein--writer, physicist, and mountaineer--surveys the people, places, and politics of some of the most enchanting territory on earth. From the doggedness of the Sherpas to the crushing force of Chinese Communism, from unforgettable vistas to hilarious mishaps in the outback, Bernstein presents the panoply of Himalayan experience in vidid, memorable detail.

About this edition

• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1571312358
• ISBN 13: 9781571312358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202