 | The War Against the Beavers: Learning to Be Wild in the North Woods Subjects: Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) -- Description and travel; Vermilion River Region (Minn.) -- Description and travel; Conley Verena Andermatt 1943; Country life -- Minnesota -- Boundary Waters Canoe Area; Log cabins -- Minnesota -- Boundary Waters Can; The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two peopleOCOs ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living. Juxtaposing idyllic descriptionsOCo hiking and cross-country skiing, swimming and canoeing in clear watersOCowith the intensive labor of maintaining a wilderness homestead, Conley draws a beguiling picture of the ups and downs of backwoods living." |
