Runes of the NorthIn Runes of the North Sigurd F. Olson explores the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him, weaving the tales and myths with his own stories and experiences as an explorer, writer, grandfather, and biologist. Now available in paperback for the first time, Runes of the North is a mystical and reflective guide to the northern wilderness written with a oneness and communion with nature that is unique to Olson's pen. It is a work filled with beauty, wisdom, and renewal. |
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Page 43
... east for the first telltale brightening . Then in a sudden explosion of color the aurora returned and now there were several drifting curtains , blending and shaking and crossing one another until the entire sky was a confusion of ...
... east for the first telltale brightening . Then in a sudden explosion of color the aurora returned and now there were several drifting curtains , blending and shaking and crossing one another until the entire sky was a confusion of ...
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... east end of the lake was brightening and I watched another hunting moon of orange climb into the sky and flood the water with its brilliance . Here , too , a moonrise had had its prelude , a prelude as startling as the northern lights ...
... east end of the lake was brightening and I watched another hunting moon of orange climb into the sky and flood the water with its brilliance . Here , too , a moonrise had had its prelude , a prelude as startling as the northern lights ...
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... east we were bathed in its warmth . We cooked breakfast , assembled our gear , picked out flies and spinners on a chance the trout would be near shore . Anything could happen , there might be no reefs , the fish already deep . We ...
... east we were bathed in its warmth . We cooked breakfast , assembled our gear , picked out flies and spinners on a chance the trout would be near shore . Anything could happen , there might be no reefs , the fish already deep . We ...
Contents
PROEM FROM Kalevala RUNES OF THE NORTH | 3 |
LE BEAU PAYS | 7 |
THE DREAM NET | 9 |
Copyright | |
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