Words from the Wild: Favorite Columns from A Yankee Notebook

Lange, Willem

ISBN 10: 0872332152 / ISBN 13: 9780872332157

Published by Bauhan, 2015

About this Item

Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; RNKH; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 319. Weight in Grams: 382. . 2015. Paperback. . . . .

Seller Inventory # V9780872332157

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Words from the Wild: Favorite Columns from A Yankee Notebook
• Publisher: Bauhan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872332152
• ISBN 13: 9780872332157
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of columns about the wilderness of New England and more from well-known New Hampshire and Vermont naturalist and commentator Willem Lange.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Camping on the Connecticut River
Lonesome Lake Isn't All That Lonesome
A Notch Full of Rocks
Mushing Through Maine
Descent into the MaelstromOn a Big Whoopie Cushion
A Nostalgic Trip to an Abandoned Island
Chipmunks, Kids, and Mountaintops
Hang Gliding: Once is Enough!
Mother Charges Up Mount Cardigan, and Disappears
A Long Night and a Long Day on Top of Maine
A Presidential Traverse
A New Year's Day (Climbing) Party
Camping with the ScoutsAgain
A Trail Too Far, and Far Too Steep
Hiking with Tom and Atticus
A Busy Week Ends with a Loop
North of the Notches
Fishing with Alfred
The Recovering Woods of Maine
Devil's Gulch in the Heart of Eden
Mysteries of Dogtown
Hiking in the Dark
The Warrior Hikers
A Hike to a Long-Ago Plane Crash
The Emerald Necklace
Interesting People
Mountain Day at Colby-Sawyer College
This Mountain Stands Alone in Memory Too
Related Windows to the Wild Episodes
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Willem Lange has worked as an Adirondack guide, a preacher, a bartender, a construction laborer, a cab driver, a bob-sled run announcer, a bookkeeper, a ranch hand, a high-school English teacher, a carpenter, a contractor, and from 1968 to 1972 he directed Dartmouth College’s Outward Bound Center. For more than thirty years he has been writing a weekly column, A Yankee Notebook, which appears in newspapers all over New England. He is a regular commentator on Vermont Public Television and Vermont Public Radio, and the host of New Hampshire Public Television’s award-winning series, Windows to the Wild.