Fawn IslandU of Minnesota Press, 2001. febr. 13. - 192 oldal Fawn Island is a place where crows serve as alarm clocks, white-throated sparrows leave the tracks of their songs upon the evening hush, and chickadees help a woodsman learn to whistle. The island is also a jumping-off place for journeys large and small, earthly and spiritual-to nearby Mallard Island, Gull Island, or Bald Rock, by sea kayak into the wild recesses of sprawling Voyageurs National Park, or on a midnight paddle in which the paddler can reach the silent wilderness of the stars themselves. In his latest book, best-selling author Douglas Wood guides the reader on a deep journey into the heart of the North Woods. For Wood, Fawn Island is not merely a charming wilderness hideaway; it is the entry to realms of thought and meaning as well. From its pine-clad shores he probes for insights into the nature of neighborliness and independence, of community and solitude. Out of an ancient Ojibwe legend comes an exploration of personal loss and life after death. Wood questions the notion of being a “force of nature” and the concept of the passage of time in the context of seemingly eternal trees, lakes, rock ledges, and stars. From beneath the ascending trunks of pines comes an inquiry into the principles of optimism and, finally, a personal response to the eternal question: Is the universe a friendly place? Embedded in the text like roots of the island’s pines is Wood’s gentle, self-effacing humor and the author’s own original pen-and-ink drawings that superbly evoke the poetry and mystery of this “small bit of rock and tree,” this “lucky place” in the wilderness. |
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Douglas Wood. Preface AWN ISLAND Is A Rugged but poetic outcrop of granite in the heart of the North Woods . Draped with a shawl of juniper and jack pine , it rises out of the vast blue mistiness of Rainy Lake , overlooking a long sweep ...
... granite ledges of the point itself . Herbs are scarce now — a few cory- dalis plants flaunt their pink and yellow blossoms , a few sprigs of leatherleaf , a struggling red pine seedling . But there is one plant on the point that holds ...
... granite dome on the north end of the island . This rounded ridge of glaciated rock is an example of countless such outcrops that run - sometimes for miles - through the forests of the Canadian Shield , from Superior's North Shore to ...
... granite - the typical ex- foliating erosion of such an outcrop . I step carefully as I cross the ridge , placing foot before foot on the narrow trail to avoid disturbing its fragile rock garden . Foot- steps are forever among the ...
... granites root- ed deep in the mantle of the earth , its pines aspiring for the sky , is in many ways a living mandala — a symbol— not of isolation from but of connection to - to the earth , the water , the sky . Here a morning walk is ...