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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
4) Fieldbook
Publisher
Boy Scouts of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Boy Scouts of America's manual of advanced skills for outdoor travel, adventure, and caring for the land.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Explores how tourism in the North Woods including northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula evolved after the area was deindustrialized following the depletion of resources such as timber and ore in the early twentieth century. Discusses the revitalization of the North Woods due to improved transportation, travel promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives, and details how tourism in the North Woods...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and...
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