Ogden Tanner

Hier, höher noch am Bergeshang, /Als je die Hojfnungsich entwarf, / War's, wo mein Vater baute, einen Brunnen grub, / Der Mauern Ketten spannt' um Hab und Gut. . . / Der Berg schob uns von seinem Schofi, / Wo jetzt die Baume wachsen, dicht und grófi. RÓBERT FROST / THE BIRTHPLACE Ja, es gibt...

11A primeval northland as big as Europe The vast Canadian wilderness, which stretched from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean, yielded with great reluctance to the French and British adventurers who went west in search of furs, then gold and finally farmland. The immense territory, greater in...

A HALF-TON POLAR BEAR CRAWLS STEALTHILY across an Arctic ice floe, its small eyes fixed on a plump, unsuspecting seal. A pack of timber wolves bounds through the deep snow of a Canadian forest, nimbly avoiding the slashing hooves of an enfeebled old bull moose and closing in for the kill. A group...

That Keyed-up Feeling For one of the couple at left a ride on a roller coaster is sheer delight —an exhilarating experience to be sought and savored for its own sake. For the other, clearly, it is an experience that almost brings panic. At the end of the ride, the man might very well say,...