The War Against The Beavers : Learning to Be Wild in the North Woods

The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two peoples ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living. Juxtaposing idyllic descriptions hiking and cross-country skiing, swimming and canoeing in clear waterswith the intensive labor of maintaining a wilderness homestead, Conley draws a beg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conley, Verena Andermatt
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Conley, Verena Andermatt, > 1943-
Travel.
Natural history.
Log cabins.
Country life.
Beavers.
Beavers > Minnesota > Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Natural history > Minnesota > Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Log cabins > Minnesota > Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Country life > Minnesota > Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Minnesota > Vermilion River Region.
Minnesota > Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Vermilion River Region (Minn.) > Biography.
Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) > Biography.
Vermilion River Region (Minn.) > Description and travel.
Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) > Description and travel.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Prologue: A Cabin in the Wilderness; Part I. Babes in the Woods; Heading for the Wilderness; Home Alone at the Cabin; Summer Pleasures; Forest Paths; The Art of Ricing; Winter Pleasures; Of Mice and Men; Round-robin with the Weasels; Icy Roads; Cabin Opener; Tree-Planting Ceremony; Bruno the Bear; Blueberry Hill; Raspberry Picking; Devastation; Part II. The War against the Beavers; The War Begins; Jim Rondeau; Strange Bedfellows; Tree Nailing; Nature Attacks; The First Trapper; A New Beaver Dam; The Logging Letter; A Tour with the "Forest Coordinator."

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