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  • Sigurd Seals The Deal

    Series Book 1 - Animal Picture Books With Social & Emotional Learning
    Sigurd, Snorre and Skade are seal colony leaders. Each has a different style of leadership. The colony needs to return to sea after molting or shedding their winter fur. How does each leader take on this task? Show your kids how good leaders lead and how they teach younger leaders as Sigurd seals the deal about going back to sea. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singing Wilderness

    To do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silences of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life which is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many places, but I seem to hear it best in the wilderness lake country of the Quetico-Superior, where travel is still by pack and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Wilderness

    Series series A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
    Sigurd F. Olson (1899-1982) was one of the greatest environmentalists of the twentieth century. A conservation activist and popular writer, Olson introduced a generation of readers to the importance of wilderness. He served as president of the Wilderness Society and the National Parks Association and as a consultant to the federal government on wilderness preservation and ecological problems. He ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reflections from the North Country

    Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America's natural heritage.Based on speeches delivered at town meetings and government ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • LISTENING POINT

    “Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole realms of thought and interest. From it I have glimpsed the immensity of space and at times the grandeur of creation.“I believe that I have experienced there one of the oldest satisfactions of man; ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Saga of the Volsungs

    The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer

    The epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner's Ring cycleWritten in thirteenth-century Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. It tells of the cursed treasure of the Rhine, a sword reforged and a magic ring of power, and at its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer, who ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Runes of the North

    A rune is, in its general meaning, a tale of magic and mystery. To Sigurd Olson it expresses his feelings about the haunting appeal of the wilderness and of the tales and legends to be found there. His runes are legends, yards, and wilderness reflections drawn from the great northern vastness of Canada and Alaska. Whether he is recounting a charming Indian myth, such as “The Dream Net,” or ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Singing Wilderness

    Narrated by Douglas Wood ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    Acute natural perceptivity and a profound knowledge of the relationships to be found in nature combine here in vivid evocations of the sights, the sounds, the vast stillnesses, and the events of the wilderness as the seasons succeed each other. But Mr. Olson is not content merely to "describe"; he probes for meanings that will lead the listener to a different and more revealing way of looking at ... Read more

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  • Of Time and Place

    Of Time and Place is a legacy from one of the best-loved woodsman writers of our time. To the outdoorsmen who often canoed and portaged with him through the northern Lake country, Sigurd Olson was affectionately known as the Bourgeois—the name that voyageurs gave two hundred years ago to the trusted guides who took them over this same territory. And in this, his last book, completed just before ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Contextual Theology

    Skills and Practices of Liberating Faith

    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations.The authors discuss some prioritised thematic ... Read more

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  • The Murder of Sigurd Sharon

    A Spike Tracy Mystery

    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    When Spike Tracy, man of leisure and occasional amateur sleuth, seeks roadside assistance from an attractive young woman named Jill, he readily accepts her invitation to stay to tea with her family while his car is being fixed. So it is that he finds himself in the house of Jill's guardian, Dr. Sigurd Sharon, which they share with Jill's twin sister Mary. Of particular interest to Spike is Jill's ... Read more

    $1.33 USD

  • Lonely Land

    The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: “There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the Canadian Northwest it can still be done. A thousand miles northwest of Lake Superior are great free ... Read more

    $9.99 USD