Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 243 pages. Bright green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and silver, with 28 black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques. A first edition of the author's second book. "The book has prose that is close to poetry. The discerning eye of the naturalist is in every page. The color, breath, and sounds of the North Country are here in vivid form. Sigurd Olson is our modern Muir and Thoreau. He writes with depth and with feeling. This book of quiet adventure is hard to put down." - Justice William O. Douglas.