A Place In The Woods

Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.A Place in the Woods, first published in 1969, describes how the Hoovers gradually adapted to the rigors of wilderness survival, relating events that occurred prior to those Helen Hoover described in her bestselling The Girl of the Deer. This is a tale of starting out, of the pitfalls of beginning a new life -- one punctuated by near disasters but also by moments of rare beauty.A Place in the Woods is enlivened by warm, humorous anecdotes showing both the struggle and reward involved in joining this small community of rabbits, deer, and distant neighbors. This volume, now available in paperback for the first time, conveys the special joy of each small victory in the wilderness.

Zusammenfassung

Originally published: 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1969.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Adrian Hoover, Helen Hoover
• Mitarbeit: Adrian Hoover (Illustration)
• Verlag: University Of Minnesota Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9780816631292
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-3129-2
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 207 mm x 139 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 402 g
• Serien: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Herit; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Herit; A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Ratgeber > Natur; Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Natur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke