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| | Product Details | | Author: | Sigurd F. Olson | | Paperback: | 288 pages | | Publisher: | Univ Of Minnesota Press | | Publication Date: | August 13, 1997 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0816629978 | | Product Width: | 1.5 centimeters | | Product Height: | 2.18 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.01 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.1 inches | | Package Width: | 5.6 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 8 reviews |
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15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
One of the best books I have ever read Apr 26, 2000
By Jerry Schneider
I was looking on information on old canoe routes of the voyageurs and I came upon this book. It tells the experiences of Olson, a famous naturalist of the 50's and 60's, and 5 of his friends, as they paddle three wood and canvas canoes down 500 miles of the Churchhill River in Saskatchewan in 1960. Olson describes the setting and experience so completely, including diary entries of famous fur trappers who traveled the same route, that I have thought of nothing else but going to see the country he describes, the Canadian Shield of Northern Saskatchewan. It is a different place now than it was 40 years ago, less lonely I imagine, but still something I must do. I would recommend this book to anyone who longs to experience this land, North America, before it became overpopulated.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Sigurd F. Olson's "The Lonely Land" Feb 26, 2000
By Seth G. Cowdery
I read this book while in Antarctica, and I spent several storm days lost in Olson's vivid tale of an epic journey through the vast Canadian wilderness. His insight into the socio-historical condition of the indigenous peoples and French-Canadian missionaries and traders is unique. Also, I found the illustrations by Frances Lee Jacques to be immaculate line drawings worthy of admiration in their own right. "The Lonely Land" fueled the wanderlust and naturalist in me as much as any Ed Abbey or John Muir book.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
The best of Sigurd Olson & the Northwoods Jul 28, 1999
By daledgy@aol.com
This is a book I can pick up and read anytime I need to feel the fresh clean air of the Canadian Northwoods. Olson & 5 other experienced and accomplished comrades follow the route of the early Voyageurs down 500 miles of the wild Churchill river. A bonding of men, rich in history, enough adventure to stir the imagination of any outdoorsman or armchair adventurer. I have read this book many times, it has become a comfortable old friend.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Rediscovery May 16, 2007
By Richard Masse
I first obtained this book in my youth through the old Outdoor Life Book Club (which also introduced me to other classics such as John J. Rowlands' Cache Lake Country). I'm not sure I read The Lonely Land all the way through at that first encounter, but I recently rediscovered it when cleaning out a family home. I picked it up out of nostalgia, but I soon found that I couldn't put it down.
Apart from the inherent interest of its subject matter -- the majestic wilderness of central Canada's Churchill River drainage -- I was quickly taken by the immediacy of Olson's account. The wind, the waves, the thunder of approaching rapids all spill off the page in vivid detail, as do the detailed descriptions of each night's camp and its routines. As compelling is the exuberance of Olson and his five companions as they explore pristine lakes, shoot the Churchill's wild water, and find refuge time and again on the solid, reassuring outcrops of the Canadian Shield.
Finally, at each stage of the journey, Olson quotes from the journals of those who came before him, the "bourgeois" who led the brigades of voyageurs into the heart of the Lonely Land in search of furs. Men like Alexander MacKenzie, George Simpson, and David Thompson, who worked for the Hudson's bay Company or its competitors: the record of their observations informs Olson's account with vivid descriptions of the land as well as a sense both of how much and how little had changed over the one hundred and fifty years since they had last paddled, poled, and lined their way up the same great river system.
I know that Olson has many well-regarded books to his credit, but a new reader could do worse than enter this world of woods and water by way of The Lonely Land.
All around Great! Aug 05, 2009
By Martha M. Baker
Great to be able to get an out of print book at a good price and prompt turn around. Product exactly as described. Thank you!
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