The Ruling Passion

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer and John Frederick Kensett. Stories of men in the woods and on the water: a Canadian guide, a trout stream, a keeper of a lighthouse, a boy and a canoe — and in each one a governing passion that decides everything. Van Dyke was a Princeton professor, a clergyman and Wilson's minister to the Netherlands during the ...