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The Owl Pen Reader
Owl Pen Reader: the Adventures of a Dauntless Couple Who Rebuilt an Old House in the Wilderness
From the inside jacket "The Owl Pen Reader brings to readers in the United States the waring and often exciting adventures in backwoods living that were related in Kenneth Wells's four books published earlier in Canada: The Owl Pen (pub 1947), By Moonstone Creek (pub 1949), Up Medonte Way (pub 1951) and By Jumping Cat Bridge (pub 1965?). The READER, which combines the four books in slightly abridged form, is published because the experiences it tells are forever and universally interesting and the writing imperishably fresh. It tells how a journalist and his artist wife gave up city living and bought for fifteen dollars a century-old shack that originally was built of massive timbers when trees were trees. The Wellses moved it to a quiet wilderness place, rebuilt it, named it "Owl Pen" and turned to the farming life.
The OWL PEN READER tells of half a lifetime spent in the Canadian Eden: their brave quiet efforts at self-sufficiency, their learning to cope with a new world of ageless verities, their discovery that birds and animals are like persons. Kenneth Wells relates this intimate story in an easy narrative style that draws strength from its understatement and its simple reverence for day-to-day incident. Lucy Wells ornaments the account with beautiful wood engravings."
From the inside jacket "The Owl Pen Reader brings to readers in the United States the waring and often exciting adventures in backwoods living that were related in Kenneth Wells's four books published earlier in Canada: The Owl Pen (pub 1947), By Moonstone Creek (pub 1949), Up Medonte Way (pub 1951) and By Jumping Cat Bridge (pub 1965?). The READER, which combines the four books in slightly abridged form, is published because the experiences it tells are forever and universally interesting and the writing imperishably fresh. It tells how a journalist and his artist wife gave up city living and bought for fifteen dollars a century-old shack that originally was built of massive timbers when trees were trees. The Wellses moved it to a quiet wilderness place, rebuilt it, named it "Owl Pen" and turned to the farming life.
The OWL PEN READER tells of half a lifetime spent in the Canadian Eden: their brave quiet efforts at self-sufficiency, their learning to cope with a new world of ageless verities, their discovery that birds and animals are like persons. Kenneth Wells relates this intimate story in an easy narrative style that draws strength from its understatement and its simple reverence for day-to-day incident. Lucy Wells ornaments the account with beautiful wood engravings."
445 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1969
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