Chips from a Wilderness Log

Calvin Rutstrum is acknowledged as one of the greatest outdoorsmen alive. He's kept an informal log of his more than sixty years of intimacy with the North American wild, and now he recounts those episodes of animals, Indians, and woodsmen he has known, amplifying his reminiscences with sage reflections on how humankind can live more fulfilling lives. Whether shepherding two orphaned Indian children through the North Woods in the early 1920s, describing the ecstasy of listening to rain on the roof of a log cabin hundreds of miles and dozens of portages from the nearest settlement, or explaining what you cam use for camp fire fuel when there's no dry dead wood around, Calvin Rutstrum paints the sort of picture that will keep you coming back for more.