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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... jack pine , it rises out of the vast blue mistiness of Rainy Lake , overlooking a long sweep of open water sometimes lashed by wind and wave , sometimes still enough to reflect the starry depths of the universe . From its rocky eminence ...
... Jack Pine Point is such a place . It was upon discovering the point on an early exploration that we first began to fall in love with the Fawn and decided we must try to make it our own . On the tiny beach cupped by the point , Kathy ...
... pine seedling . But there is one plant on the point that holds forth as boldly as a crest upon a shield , and that is the gnarled , drooping tree that , more than anything save the rock itself , gives the point its character . Jack pines ...
... pine on its bare spit of rock epitomizes the wild spirit of the North to me , and the entire enterprise of life in a ... Jack Pine Point will be- come Red Pine Point . No matter , for what the point with its old tree means will never ...
... Jack Pine Point is such a place . It was upon discovering the point on an early exploration that we first began to fall in love with the Fawn and decided we must try to make it our own . On the tiny beach cupped by the point , Kathy ...