Pilgrims of the Wild (His Classic Autobiography)

By Grey Owl

Book Overview

First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl's autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0771592124
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: MacMillan

Customer Reviews

What someone who trapped animals knew about nature's beauty.

Grey Owl is often remembered, first, as someone who pretended to be someone else. This is not fair, as it assumes that a confidence job has been enacted against all of us. Grey Owl was truly a fur-trapper, and worked with other fur-trappers, in the very country that he describes so beautifully in this work. He came to love the many faces of the forest so much that he eventually gave up trapping and turned to writing, to share his discovery with others. This happened long before the concept of "conservation" assumed its corrent form. In that time, it was more likely to imply that an area of countryside (probably containing mountains) would be preserved as if encased in plastic. But Grey Owl wrote about the living world.