""The Singing Wilderness has to do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silence of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life which is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many places, but I seem to hear it best in the wilderness lake country of the Quetico-Superior, where travel is still by pack and canoe over the ancient trails of the Indians and voyageurs." Thus the author sets the theme and tone of this enthralling book of discovery about one of the few great primitive areas in our county which have withstood the pressures of civilization. Acute natural perceptivity and a profound knowledge of the relationships to be found in nature combine here in vivid evocations of the sights, the sounds, the vast stillness, and the events of the wilderness as the seasons succeed each other."--book jacket.
Birds and other wild life of the lake country of the Quetico-Superior, northwest of Lake Superior.
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