The Red Gods Call

By Paul Lester Errington

Dust jacket notes: "Even as a child, the internationally famous naturalist Paul Errington had a fascination with nature, grasping every available opportunity to explore and discover its wonders. These... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813813409
• ISBN13: 9780813813400
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Iowa State University Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Sub-arctic winter in the bush

Paul Errington was a contemporary and colleague of Aldo Leopold.He was bred on a prairie farm, and tramped the local prairie pothole marshes year-round. As an academic scientist, he contributed to our understanding of the inland wetland biome.This book is a young man's adventure, the true story of thewinter that he spent alone, running a trapline in the Canadian bush. Errington is an eloquent and articulate writer, and I feel this account ranks with Sevareid's _Canoeing_With_The_Cree_, and with Maclean's _A_River_Runs_Through_It_.Those few who cherish a love for frosty mornings on prairiemarshes (you old duck-hunters, this means you) should seek outa used copy of Errington's _Of_Men_And_Marshes_. This slim volume of musings on the marsh year belongs on the same shelf with Hochbaum's _The_Canvasback_On_A_ Prairie_Marshand Leopold's _Round_River_.