Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Leschak, Peter M

Title Letters from Side Lake : a Chronicle of Life in the North Woods
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1992

Copies

Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents 1. The Emerald City; 2. Log Walls, Big Dipper; 3. Battleground; 4. A Gift of Ice; 5. Fire!; 6. Beasts of Burden; 7. The Quest and the Kill; 8. Telling Tales; 9. Wide-Screen Window; 10. The Pitfalls of Self-Reliance; 11. Firewood Follies; 12. Chinook; 13. Other Waters; 14. The Incomplete Angler; 15. The Dark Side of Nature; 16. Surprises; 17. October Tale
Summary After a brief taste of urban life, and convinced that nothing equaled the formidable challenge of life in the heart of the vast woods, Peter M. Leschak returned to northern Minnesota. Letters from Side Lake chronicles the marvelous range of adventures and reflectionsdescribed with thoughtfulness and humorspringing from his pioneer-like existence. In Leschaks unique voice and beautifully crafted style, Letters from Side Lake captures the great pleasures and rugged feats and hardships of North Woods living
Notes Print version record
Subject Leschak, Peter M., 1951-
SUBJECT Leschak, Peter M., 1951- fast
Subject Country life -- Minnesota -- Side Lake Region (Lake)
Country life
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Side Lake Region (Minn.) -- Social life and customs
Side Lake Region (Minn.) -- Biography
Subject Minnesota -- Side Lake Region (Lake)
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816685028
0816685029