Glimpses of Wilderness

by Kevin Proescholdt

Overview

Glimpses of Wilderness shares the author's insights into the nature and value of wilderness areas. Set in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, each of the thirty essays describes an adventure drawn from the author's wealth of experiences in the area, and the glimpse into the character of wilderness that it provides. Though set in Minnesota's canoe country wilderness, the perceptions and insights offered in Glimpses of Wilderness also pertain to all wildernesses across the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878398119
Publisher:	North Star Press of Saint Cloud
Publication date:	03/01/2015
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Kevin Proescholdt has worked to protect Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) and other wild places for nearly forty years. A former wilderness guide in the BWCAW, he has written widely about wilderness and wilderness conservation. He helped pass the 1978 BWCAW Act through Congress, the struggle about which he wrote in the 1995 book, Troubled Waters: The Fight for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, published by North Star Press. Today he works as the conservation director for Wilderness Watch, a national wilderness conservation organization.

Table of Contents

1 Glimpses of Wilderness 1

2 Wilderness Magic 5

3 Gabbling of Geese 8

4 Opening the Canoe Country 12

5 Wind-borne 16

6 The Caribou and the Whitetail 20

7 Broad-wing 23

8 Arctic Cold 26

9 Denizen of the Depths 31

10 The Encounter 34

11 The Portage 38

12 Late Winter Thunder 42

13 Vistas 45

14 Winter Renewal 49

15 In Search of Remoteness 52

16 The Scramble 56

17 Deep in the Heart of Quetico 61

18 The Exploration of Unnamed Creek 66

19 Images of Autumn 69

20 Timelessness 73

21 The Light Show 76

22 Awakenings at Dawn 79

23 Wind and Fire 81

24 Care of Wilderness 85

25 Bud's Fires 89

26 Musings of a Springtime Solo 93

27 Snowshoe Mission 96

28 The Mists of Brule Lake 99

29 Faint Trails and Fading Light 103

30 Wilderness Trail 107