A Private Wilderness

The personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer Few writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world, its power and fragility, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness , however, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now fam