Pilgrims of the Wild
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First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl's autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims of the Wild tells the story of Grey Owl's life of happy cohabitation with the wild creatures of nature and the healing powers of what he referred to as "the great Northland" of "Over the Hills and Far Away." A bestseller at the time, Pilgrims of the Wild helped establish Grey Owl's international reputation as a conservationist. His legacy of warnings against the degradations of nature and the dangers of industry live on, despite the posthumous revelation that he wasn't, in fact, the First Nations man he claimed to be.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1554887348
ISBN13:9781554887347
Release Date:July 2010
Publisher:Dundurn Group
Length:251 Pages
Weight:0.78 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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What someone who trapped animals knew about nature's beauty.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Grey Owl is often remembered, first, as someone who pretended to be someone else. This is not fair, as it assumes that a confidence job has been enacted against all of us. Grey Owl was truly a fur-trapper, and worked with other fur-trappers, in the very country that he describes so beautifully in this work. He came to love the many faces of the forest so much that he eventually gave up trapping and turned to writing, to share his discovery with others. This happened long before the concept of "conservation" assumed its corrent form. In that time, it was more likely to imply that an area of countryside (probably containing mountains) would be preserved as if encased in plastic. But Grey Owl wrote about the living world.
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