In 1954, Helen Hoover and her husband Adrian left their careers and the big-city life of Chicago to move to a small cabin in the north woods that border Minnesota and Canada. Living without electricity, telephone, or a car, the Hoovers became part of the environment, peacefully coexisting with their wild neighbors. The Long-Shadowed Forest is the amazing record of the Hoovers' relationship with deer, mice, birds, squirrels, moose, and other creatures of the forest. The Long-Shadowed Forest, illustrated throughout with Adrian's charming line drawings, is a welcome treat for Helen Hoover fans and will be compelling reading for nature lovers everywhere.

The Long-Shadowed Forest

Hoover, Helen

Literature & Fiction

W.W.Norton&Company

In 1954, Helen Hoover and her husband Adrian left their careers and the big-city life of Chicago to move to a small cabin in the north woods that border Minnesota and Canada. Living without electricity, telephone, or a car, the Hoovers became part of the environment, peacefully coexisting with their wild neighbors. The Long-Shadowed Forest is the amazing record of the Hoovers' relationship with deer, mice, birds, squirrels, moose, and other creatures of the forest. The Long-Shadowed Forest, illustrated throughout with Adrian's charming line drawings, is a welcome treat for Helen Hoover fans and will be compelling reading for nature lovers everywhere.

The long-shadowed forest

History

Americas

Norton

The author relates her experiences establishing a home in the northern wilderness of Minnesota

A Place in the Woods

KNOPF

The author recalls the joys and problems of living in the wilderness in this collection of reminiscences

Years of the Forest

Story of a family of white-tailed deer describing their habits, behavior, personalities, and position in the forest's ecology

The Gift of the Deer

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Houghton/Mifflin

Heinemann

Crowell

One Christmas Eve an emaciated deer stumbled across the yard of Helen Hoover's remote cabin in northern Minnesota. Barely surviving the brutal winter, gaunt from starvation, blind in one eye from a hunting wound, he became the central character in Hoover's popular book The Gift of the Deer. Hoover and her husband Adrian named this deer Peter, nursed him back to health, and observed Peter and his growing clan for four years. The Gift of the Deer, first published in 1966, sold over 50,000 copies and is Hoover's best-selling book. This paperback edition is beautifully illustrated by Adrian Hoover, and readers young and old will delight in this touching story of two north woods families.

Gift of the Deer (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.
A Place in the Woods, first published in 1969, describes how the Hoovers gradually adapted to the rigors of wilderness survival, relating events that occurred prior to those Helen Hoover described in her bestselling The Girl of the Deer. This is a tale of starting out, of the pitfalls of beginning a new life -- one punctuated by near disasters but also by moments of rare beauty.
A Place in the Woods is enlivened by warm, humorous anecdotes showing both the struggle and reward involved in joining this small community of rabbits, deer, and distant neighbors. This volume, now available in paperback for the first time, conveys the special joy of each small victory in the wilderness.

A Place In The Woods (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

Sports & Outdoors

The Long-Shadowed Forest (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

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The Long-Shadowed Forest

The long-shadowed forest

A Place in the Woods

Years of the Forest

The Gift of the Deer

Years of the Forest

The Long-Shadowed Forest

Gift of the Deer (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

A Place In The Woods (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

The Long-Shadowed Forest (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)