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Author : Catherine Calhoun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780831739409
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Discover the Shores of the Great Lakes written by Catherine Calhoun and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246442
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Author : Landon Beach
Publisher : Landon Beach Books
ISBN 13 : 9781732257801
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wreck written by Landon Beach and published by Landon Beach Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready for an underwater adventure? Witness the mystery unfold as you dive in!Nate Martin finds something unfathomable on the beach-something impossible-that creates a frenzied search for answers amongst people who hold life less dear than their more desirous pursuits.On the famous beaches of Hampstead, Michigan, what was once a small community of summer cottage holders has turned into a beachfront full of gaudy mansions owned by the mega-rich. Among the few remaining cottage folk are Nate and Brooke Martin, two teachers who have settled in for the summer to relax and rekindle their relationship. And on a remote peninsula resides Abner Hutch, retired Coast Guard Officer and Great Lakes master of the deep-a man with a mysterious past and a core wound that will not heal.Everything changes on the sunny day in June when Nate takes a walk on the beach.Put on some sunscreen, unfold a beach chair, and get ready to discover The Wreck.
Author : Jerry Dennis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028251
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Windward Shore written by Jerry Dennis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore---his newest effort---is a beautifully written and elegiac memoir of outdoor discovery. Highly recommended!" ---Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America "Come for a journey; stay for an awakening. Jerry Dennis loves the Great Lakes, the swell of every wave, the curve of every rock. He wants you to love them too before our collective trashing of them wipes out all traces of their original character. Through his eyes, you will treasure the hidden secrets that reveal themselves only to those who linger and long. Elegant and sad at the same time, The Windward Shore is a love song for the Great Lakes and a gentle call to action to save them." ---Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water "In prose as clear as the lines in a Dürer etching, Jerry Dennis maps his home ground, which ranges outward from the back door of his farmhouse to encompass the region of vast inland seas at the heart of our continent. Along the way, inspired by the company of water in all its guises---ice, snow, frost, clouds, rain, shore-lapping waves---he meditates on the ancient questions about mind and matter, time and attention, wildness and wonder. As in the best American nature writing---a tradition that Dennis knows well---here the place and the explorer come together in brilliant conversation." ---Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Conservationist Manifesto If you have been enchanted by Jerry Dennis’s earlier work on sailing the Great Lakes, canoeing, angling, and the natural wonders of water and sky—or you have not yet been lucky enough to enjoy his engaging prose—you will want to immerse yourself in his powerful and insightful new book on winter in Great Lakes country. Grounded by a knee injury, Dennis learns to live at a slower pace while staying in houses ranging from a log cabin on Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Peninsula to a $20 million mansion on the northern shore of Lake Michigan. While walking on beaches and exploring nearby woods and villages, he muses on the nature of time, weather, waves, agates, books, words for snow and ice, our complex relationship with nature, and much more. From the introduction: “I wanted to present a true picture of a complex region, part of my continuing project to learn at least one place on earth reasonably well, and trusted that it would appear gradually and accumulatively—and not as a conventional portrait, but as a mosaic that included the sounds and scents and textures of the place and some of the plants, animals, and its inhabitants. Bolstered by the notion that a book is a journey that author and reader walk together, I would search for promising trails and follow them as far as my reconstructed knee would allow.”
Author : William Ratigan
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802870100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals written by William Ratigan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away. Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are the magnificent excursion liner Eastland, which capsized at her pier in the Chicago River, drowning 835 people within clutching distance of busy downtown streets; the shipwrecked steel freighter Mataafa, which dumped its crew into freezing waters while the snowbound town of Duluth looked on; the dark Sunday in November 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale; and the bitter November of 1958 when the Bradley went down in Lake Michigan during one of the greatest killer storms on the freshwater seas. An entire section is dedicated to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- the most famous maritime loss in modern times -- in Lake Superior in 1975. Chilling watercolor illustrations, photographs, maps, and news clippings accentuate Ratigan's compelling and dramatic storytelling. Sailors, historians, and general readers alike will be swept away by these unforgettable tales of tragedy and heroism.
Author : Sara Stafford
Publisher : Westphalia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781633911130
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Discovery of the Five Great Lakes written by Sara Stafford and published by Westphalia Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes consist of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, and are the world's greatest concentration, more than 20 percent, of fresh water. In geologic terms they are only about ten thousand years old, formed during the last ice age. Appreciating their history has taken on additional importance as foreign marine life has threatened their unique fishing resources, and pollution has intruded on their purity. The National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio, presents a comprehensive view of the region. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society maintains historical sites and has identified more than 8,000 shipwreck sites in the lakes, a unique collection of historical evidence through the centuries. Sara Stafford (1853-1927) was active in the Thunder Bay Historical Society and also wrote The Keeper of the Gate, or the Sleeping Giant of Lake Superior, and Port Arthur in Ye Olden Time, in which she related that in the winter the mail came by dog sled over the ice from Duluth and that "We considered that the news was up to date and not old if the papers received were not more than twenty days old."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual of Scientific Discovery written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Discovery of the Great West written by Francis Parkman and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1869 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns Robert La Salle's explorations in North America.
Author : Francis Parkman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book LaSalle and the Discovery of the Great West written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West written by Francis Parkman and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1879 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
