This text presents the author's inspirational life story, told in his own words. Olson recounts a life lived on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions ...

A selection of Sigurd F. Olson's finest writing on the splendor of the great outdoors, hand-picked by the master himself

Despite the enduring popularity of The Singing Wilderness, Listening Point, Reflections from the North Country, and his other books, a major portion of Sigurd F. Olson's ...

"Olson's prose remains timeless, and the lovely photographs are a feast for both the eyes and the spirit". Mpls./St. Paul magazine. A landmark book in nature photography and ...

“Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new ...

A rune is, in its general meaning, a tale of magic and mystery. To Sigurd Olson it expresses his feelings about the haunting appeal of the wilderness and of the tales and ...

To do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silences of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness ...

Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with ...