Sweetwater, Storms, and Spirits
Author : Victoria Brehm
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472081516
Author : Victoria Brehm
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472081516
Author : Victoria Brehm
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
ISBN :
Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN :
Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Colorado
ISBN :
Author : Garland Hamlin
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781318858170
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Victoria Brehm
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472107094
Essays about the economic and industrial development of the Lakes that point out the uniqueness of the area.
Author : Jerry Dennis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1466882026
Award-winning nature author Jerry Dennis reveals the splendor and beauty of North America’s Great Lakes in this “masterwork”* history and memoir of the essential environmental and economical region shared by the United States and Canada. No bodies of water compare to the Great Lakes. Superior is the largest lake on earth, and together all five contain a fifth of the world’s supply of standing fresh water. Their ten thousand miles of shoreline border eight states and a Canadian province and are longer than the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Their surface area of 95,000 square miles is greater than New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island combined. People who have never visited them—who have never seen a squall roar across Superior or the horizon stretch unbroken across Michigan or Huron—have no idea how big they are. They are so vast that they dominate much of the geography, climate, and history of North America, affecting the lives of tens of millions of people. The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas is the definitive book about the history, nature, and science of these remarkable lakes at the heart of North America. From the geological forces that formed them and the industrial atrocities that nearly destroyed them, to the greatest environmental success stories of our time, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario are portrayed in all their complexity. A Michigan native, Jerry Dennis also shares his memories of a lifetime on or near the lakes, including a six-week voyage as a crewmember on a tallmasted schooner. On his travels, he collected more stories of the lakes through the eyes of biologists, fishermen, sailors, and others he befriended while hiking the area’s beaches and islands. Through storms and fog, on remote shores and city waterfronts, Dennis explores the five Great Lakes in all seasons and moods and discovers that they and their connecting waters—including the Erie Canal, the Hudson River, and the East Coast from New York to Maine—offer a surprising and bountiful view of America. The result is a meditation on nature and our place in the world, a discussion and cautionary tale about the future of water resources, and a celebration of a place that is both fragile and robust, diverse, rich in history and wildlife, often misunderstood, and worthy of our attention. “This is history at its best and adventure richly described.”—*Doug Stanton, author of In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors and 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award Winner Winner of Best Book of 2003 by the Outdoor Writers Association of America
Author : Fred Neuschel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472116232
The real life stories behind one of the most popular tales of the Great Lakes---the 1912 sinking of the Rouse Simmons
Author : Bradley A. Rodgers
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472066070
Details the history of the iron-hulled war steamer USS "Michigan"
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Arts
ISBN :