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Runes of the North Paperback - 1997

by Sigurd F. Olson

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In Runes of the North Sigurd Olson explores his feelings about the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him.

In the introduction, Olson writes, "My runes have come from the wilderness, for in its solitude, silence, and freedom .... I know there are moments of insight when ancient truths do stand out more vividly, and one senses anew his relationship to the earth and to all life".

Runes of the North explores these values, insights, and truths. Olson weaves the tales and myths with his own stories and experiences as an explorer, writer, grandfather, and biologist. "This inner world has to do with the wilderness from which we came", he writes, "timelessness, cosmic rhythms, and the deep feelings men have for an unchanged environment".

Olson tells of Native American legends and traditions, like dream catchers and wild rice harvests, as well as the pure pleasure of the Finnish sauna. Each story portrays the special magic one finds in the wilderness and is filled with moments, that Olson writes, "are worth waiting for, and when they come in some unheralded instant of knowing, they are of the purest gold".

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In 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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  • Title Runes of the North
  • Author Sigurd F. Olson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1997-08
  • ISBN 9780816629947 / 0816629943
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 5.61 x 1 in (21.21 x 14.25 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Alaska - Description and travel, Northwest, Canadian - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97022170
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917
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