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In Choosing Wildness, Claude Arbour describes his unusual life on a wilderness lake in northern Quebec amidst a lively community of wild birds and animals. In vibrant, moving prose, he documents his personal journey from high school dropout to noted ornithologist and conservationist, explaining how he goes beyond reintroducing birds into the wild to preserve a network of nesting sites in the lake region. Arbour brings readers deep inside the mind of a man with the courage to forsake city life and the insight to explore the transformative power of nature.
Price: $22.99
Pages: 208
Publisher: Greystone Books
Imprint: Greystone Books
Publication Date:
01 July 2009
ISBN: 9781926685106
Format: eBook
Claude Arbour is an ornithologist, an ecologist, a conversationalist, an expert on backwoods survival, medicinal plants, and animal tracking, as well as an accomplished writer. From his lakeside home, he set-up the Fondation Naturaliste du Lac Villiers and continues his research and conservation activities, including the construction of numerous nesting platforms for ospreys threatened by loss of habitat. Widely recognized for the quality of his observations and data, Arbour frequently collaborates with scientists and professional animal trainers. He lives in the wilderness of northern Québec, near Saint-Michel-des-Saints.
Joan Irving is a translator specializing in film and television. She has written the subtitles for numerous feature and documentary films, including Les Invasions barbares. Her translation of Récits de Mathieu Mestokosho, chasseur innu (Caribou Hunter: A Song of a Vanished Innu Life) was published in 2006 by Greystone Books. She lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Joan Irving is a translator specializing in film and television. She has written the subtitles for numerous feature and documentary films, including Les Invasions barbares. Her translation of Récits de Mathieu Mestokosho, chasseur innu (Caribou Hunter: A Song of a Vanished Innu Life) was published in 2006 by Greystone Books. She lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Contents
Part I
1 Where I Come From
2 A Mountain for Acturus
3 The Big Inventory
4 April, and the Annual Return of the Ospreys
5 June and July, Birthing Season
6 Fly, Thibon, Fly!
7 First Autumn Winds
8 Winterizing
9 A Christmas Present on the Way
10 The Bath Ritual
11 The Loner
12 Otters
13 Moon Rising
14 Sirius
15 Christmas Night
16 Tourists at Lac Villiers
17 Intelligence
18 Putting Up a Platform
19 "With sweetness, with sweetness, with sweetness . . . " Paul Verlaine
20 Let's Go!
21 Danielle and Shema
Part II
22 Running with the Dogs
23 The Dear Beavers
24 Observations in the Cold
25 Lupus, Lupus, Lupus
26 The Solitary Wolf
27 Kiakita, Yesterday and Tomorrw
28 The Last Wolves of Lac Villiers
29 Hard-to-Avoid Failures
30 The Big White Pine and the Backhouse
31 Never Forget the Swallows
32 A Word from Danielle
33 Ornithology, Family-Style
34 File 1641-1022, 94-BA-01
35 Hydro-Quebec and the Chicks of LG1, LG2, and LG3
36 The Release
37 The Common Loon
38 Superb Progenitor
39 A Race Against Time
40 Your Turn, Magic Light
Part III
41 Spring at Lac Villiers
42 The Children of Lac Villiers
43 The Trails at Lac Villiers
44 The Black Missile
45 Plenty of Ospreys
46 The Northern Pike
47 Reproduction of the Common Loon
48 Solstice, the Bald Eagle
49 The Pleasures of Ornithology
50 The World of Raptors
51 The Sandpiper
52 The Bird We Named Aurora
53 Bird Feeders in the Woods
54 Those Magnificent Ravens
55 A Marten Around the House
56 The Little Blond Demon
57 Ravens and Their Dirty Tricks
58 One Flew Over the Raven's Nest
59 Our Solitary Birds
60 A Happy Spring
Epilogue
Part I
1 Where I Come From
2 A Mountain for Acturus
3 The Big Inventory
4 April, and the Annual Return of the Ospreys
5 June and July, Birthing Season
6 Fly, Thibon, Fly!
7 First Autumn Winds
8 Winterizing
9 A Christmas Present on the Way
10 The Bath Ritual
11 The Loner
12 Otters
13 Moon Rising
14 Sirius
15 Christmas Night
16 Tourists at Lac Villiers
17 Intelligence
18 Putting Up a Platform
19 "With sweetness, with sweetness, with sweetness . . . " Paul Verlaine
20 Let's Go!
21 Danielle and Shema
Part II
22 Running with the Dogs
23 The Dear Beavers
24 Observations in the Cold
25 Lupus, Lupus, Lupus
26 The Solitary Wolf
27 Kiakita, Yesterday and Tomorrw
28 The Last Wolves of Lac Villiers
29 Hard-to-Avoid Failures
30 The Big White Pine and the Backhouse
31 Never Forget the Swallows
32 A Word from Danielle
33 Ornithology, Family-Style
34 File 1641-1022, 94-BA-01
35 Hydro-Quebec and the Chicks of LG1, LG2, and LG3
36 The Release
37 The Common Loon
38 Superb Progenitor
39 A Race Against Time
40 Your Turn, Magic Light
Part III
41 Spring at Lac Villiers
42 The Children of Lac Villiers
43 The Trails at Lac Villiers
44 The Black Missile
45 Plenty of Ospreys
46 The Northern Pike
47 Reproduction of the Common Loon
48 Solstice, the Bald Eagle
49 The Pleasures of Ornithology
50 The World of Raptors
51 The Sandpiper
52 The Bird We Named Aurora
53 Bird Feeders in the Woods
54 Those Magnificent Ravens
55 A Marten Around the House
56 The Little Blond Demon
57 Ravens and Their Dirty Tricks
58 One Flew Over the Raven's Nest
59 Our Solitary Birds
60 A Happy Spring
Epilogue