Up North

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

Up North is a certain way the wind feels on your face and the way an old wool shirt feels on your back. It's the peace that comes over you when you sit down to read one of your old trip journals, or the anticipation that bubbles inside when you start sorting through your tackle box early in the spring. In this unforgettable collection of essays, Sam Cook portrays the enchanting North Country as a state of mind as much as a geographical area. Up North captures the mystic moods, seasonal subtleties, and colorful characters that fill the region from the Minnesota canoe country to the vast expanse of the Northwest Territories. Organized by time of year, Up North describes every season's pleasures--sled dog racing in winter, hooking a northern pike on the first spring fishing trip, building a summer campfire, watching the aurora borealis in fall. Up North is an invitation to explore canoe country through Sam Cook's eyes and your own. "My favorite book for thedreamers or for any outdoor person who enjoys a good story... Sam Cook is a master at weaving a tale."

Author Biography

In 1976 Sam Cook trekked north from his native Kansas to work for an outfitter in the Superior-Quetico canoe country. Now, as the Duluth News-Tribune's award-winning outdoors writer, he uses Duluth, Minnesota, as "base camp" for creating his humorous, powerful, and compassionate columns

Table of Contents

Up North
1(5)
Spring
Caterpillar Nap
5(3)
Urban Relief
8(3)
Eve of the Opener
11(5)
Morning
16(5)
Summer
The Big Circle
21(3)
The Trout Fisherman
24(7)
Natural Wonders
31(3)
Fast and Dirty
34(2)
The Dream Net
36(3)
Lucky
39(3)
Sandwich Reflections
42(7)
Fall
Untold Stories
49(2)
They'd Rather Have Cash
51(7)
Stocking Feet
58(3)
Buck Fever
61(3)
Death and Life
64(7)
Winter
Dancing with a River
71(5)
The Last Run
76(6)
Once is Enough
82(11)
Spring
Gearing Up
93(4)
Back on the Brule
97(5)
Pick of the Litter
102(3)
Fishing Partners
105(8)
Summer
30 Days
113(3)
Wandering Fever
116(3)
Words Unspoken
119(3)
Your Fire, My Fire
122(5)
Soul Country
127(6)
Campfire Girl
133(3)
Coming Home
136(5)
Fall
Marking the Seasons
141(3)
Forgotten Stand
144(3)
Little Creatures
147(3)
Brule by Night
150(7)
Cabin Time
157(3)
Northern Lights
160(5)
Winter
Birkie Blues
165(5)
A Season to Endure
170(3)
In Stitches
173(4)
Find the Magic
177

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