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Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log
Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log continues the story of wilderness canoeing begun in A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, this time offering historical information about black bear attacks on humans, loon calls and behaviors, lightning strikes on the waters, the experience of a woman going into labor while canoeing with her husband, the sighting of spectacular northern lights, and reflections on the wilderness experience. All the while Wilbers reflects on experiences canoeing with his family. As in the first book, quotes from some of Minnesota's well known wilderness authors appear throughout the manuscript.
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Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log
Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log continues the story of wilderness canoeing begun in A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, this time offering historical information about black bear attacks on humans, loon calls and behaviors, lightning strikes on the waters, the experience of a woman going into labor while canoeing with her husband, the sighting of spectacular northern lights, and reflections on the wilderness experience. All the while Wilbers reflects on experiences canoeing with his family. As in the first book, quotes from some of Minnesota's well known wilderness authors appear throughout the manuscript.
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Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log

by Stephen Wilbers
Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log

by Stephen Wilbers

Overview

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log continues the story of wilderness canoeing begun in A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, this time offering historical information about black bear attacks on humans, loon calls and behaviors, lightning strikes on the waters, the experience of a woman going into labor while canoeing with her husband, the sighting of spectacular northern lights, and reflections on the wilderness experience. All the while Wilbers reflects on experiences canoeing with his family. As in the first book, quotes from some of Minnesota's well known wilderness authors appear throughout the manuscript.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781609497323
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 07/24/2012
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

An avid Nordic ski racer, cyclist, sailor, canoeist and remarkably patient angler, Stephen Wilbers has taken sixty-four trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, as well as four trips to the wilds of Canada as a Boy Scout and one with his wife, Debbie, to Quetico Provincial Park. All told, he has spent about one year of his sixty-two years wilderness canoeing, and he hopes to make it two years before he dies. His previously published books include A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, a history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a chapbook of poems titled This Northern Nonsense about Ernest Oberholtzer (the gentle giant who helped save the Boundary Waters from development) and three books of writing instruction, including Writing for Business (winner of a Minnesota Book Award) and Keys to Great Writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction. Before You Embark 11

1 Debbie Ventures North, a Black Bear Attacksand One Ugly Fish 13

2 In Search of a Whole, Live Moose 19

3 Another Moose, Two Black Bears, One Dramatic Rescue and a Remembered Image of the Natural World 36

4 A Lake Named Night and One Ferocious Mouse 46

5 An Old Friend and His Nephew, a Scary Pack of Wolves, Two Crazy Loons and the View from Eddy's Lookout Tree 63

6 Spectacular Lightning Strikes, Fasting to Death on a Wilderness Quest and a Perfect Day 71

7 Loon Stories and the Stakeout 78

8 One Honkin' Lake Trout, Spectacular Northern Lights and Summer's End on Flame Lake 87

9 Wolves Howling, Beavers Cooing and Boys Chattering 102

10 The Natural World, an Intrepid Intruder and Stargazing with Your Best Friend 113

11 Kate at Last 120

12 A Meltdown and a Broken Bow 133

13 No Youngsters and One Moose 137

14 One Foursome and One Lost Girl 139

15 Eddy's Return, a Moose Bawling in the Woods and a Plethora of Smallies 142

Epilogue 149

References and Sources for Quotations 157

About the Author 159

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