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Fourteen fascinating tales from the Great Lakes. Continue reading
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Down the Great River by Captain Willard G. Glazier (1887)
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Embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages, and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over … Continue reading
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (2017)
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I don’t know how the Pulitzer Prize thing works, but this book by Dan Egan was a finalist in 2017. He should have won. A habit of mine is to try and read “geographically” when I travel, books about the … Continue reading
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (2003)
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Erik Larson follows a true crime through the dingy street of turn-of-the-century Chicago in The Devil in the White City. It’s an engaging, disturbing, wonderful read! Continue reading
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Frederick Stonehouse (1977)
Something I like to do when I’m traveling is to read books set within the context of the locality where I’m staying, or at least that were written by folks from the area. I did this by reading Shipwrecks, Monsters, … Continue reading
Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts (2011)
This summer, as my family ventured up from Ohio through the U.P. to Northern Minnesota, we caught site of four of the Great Lakes. As always happens, I was awed both by their sheer immensity and by the mere thought … Continue reading