Sigurd Olson's love affair with the wilderness began in a stream
near his house in Wisconsin -- he caught his first trout there with
a tamarack wand, black thread, and a grasshopper as bait. Open
Horizons is his autobiography, and in it he recounts a life lived
on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions
to decades-long conservation battles.
Writing always with the sensitive, lyric prose that
characterizes his works, Olson recalls his pioneering youth on a
remote Wisconsin farm, his summers as a wilderness canoe guide, and
his thousands of miles of travel through the wilds of this country
and Canada. "Open Horizons is the story of the unknowns I have
discovered, and gone through", he writes.
While telling his story, Olson makes a compelling case for
preserving the wilderness. He puts forth his own life as an example
of how nature can have a spiritual effect on the human soul, and
proposes diligence on behalf of those who fight to conserve our
forests, wet-lands, and dunes. "If we can move into an open horizon
where we can live in our modern world with ancient dreams that have
always stirred us, then our work will have been done".
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