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Listening Point

by Sigurd F. Olson · 1958

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Poetic meditations about Olson's cabin and his life there.

This long-awaited paperback edition of a cabin-reading classic tells the story of Olson's Listening Point from his first night of sleeping under the stars, to the eventual building of his retreat there.

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"Mr. Olson brings to his writing a native's perception of the north country and the happy gift of making readers participate in his appreciation of trees and plants and animals." Atlantic Monthly

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages
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