Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson
By (Author) David Backes
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st September 1999
United States
General
Non Fiction
B
Paperback
408
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 30mm
Sigurd Olson (1899-1982) was acknowledged during his lifetime as a leader of the American environmental movement, an emblematic figure for a generation of activists. A Wilderness Within is the award-winning biography of this writer, teacher, and activist who was a harbinger of the raising of America's ecological consciousness.