By Douglas Wood
ISBN-10: 0816631735
ISBN-13: 9780816631735
Wait, younger Douglas’s grandfather says because the bobber twitches at the floor of Little Lake. Be patient. And so starts an stumble upon with the promise and beauty of nature that would final an entire life. Deep Woods, Wild Waters traces the winding direction that carried Douglas wooden from one ask yourself to the following, via a panorama of rocks, woods, and waters, with stops alongside the way in which for questions and reflections that hyperlink human nature to the bigger mysteries of the typical world.
Like lifestyles itself, the author’s means isn't linear. One landmark leads again to a favourite campsite, one other activates him to think about the “gospel of rocks,” one other launches him into the desolate tract past the stars—a contemplation of time and house and humanity’s position in it all. The author of thirty-four books, together with the vintage Old Turtle, and knowledgeable woodsman and barren region canoe consultant, wooden brings all his storytelling and bushwhacking abilities to endure as he's taking us hurtling down wild rapids, crossing stormy lakes, or just navigating the treacherous currents and twisty trails of daily life.
A hot, beneficiant, and understanding consultant, wooden maps a trip that, as he says, “anyone can take, via a panorama a person can know.” Turning the pages, climbing the portages, operating the rapids, or scanning the wild state from excessive promontory, he invitations us to assert, in a soul-satisfying second of popularity, “I recognize that place.”
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