Author: John Gagnon
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Introduces readers to ordinary, offbeat, and interesting people living on and around Lake Superior. Like Lake Superior itself, the communities of people surrounding the "Big Lake" are vast and full of variety, spanning state and international boundaries. In Lake Superior Profiles: People on the Big Lake, author John Gagnon gives readers a sense of the memorable characters who inhabit the area without attempting to take an exhaustive inventory. Instead, Gagnon met people casually and interviewed them—from a tugboat captain to an iron ore boat captain, Native Americans, and fishery biologists. Different though their stories are, all share a steadfast character, an attachment to the moody lake, and a devotion to their work. Lake Superior Profiles combines biography, history, folklore, religion, and humor in fifteen diverse chapters. In Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Gagnon visits the rivers, bays, small towns, larger cities, and nature preserves that surround Lake Superior to meet the people who make their homes there. Among those he meets are several fisherman, a botanist studying arctic wildflowers on Isle Royale, a former lighthouse keeper on a remote reef on the lake, a voyageur reenactor from Duluth, a woman who harvests wild rice each August in the Bad River Sloughs, and a monk living on the Keweenaw Peninsula. He also writes about three of the lake’s major fish species, a rock formation steeped in lore called the Sleeping Giant, and the current fragile ecology of the Big Lake. Engaging in style and varied in content, these profiles display Gagnon’s natural curiosity and storytelling acumen in illustrating the many ways the lake shapes the lives of those near it. Residents of the Lake Superior region and readers interested in the area will enjoy Lake Superior Profiles.
Lake Superior Profiles
Author: John Gagnon
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Introduces readers to ordinary, offbeat, and interesting people living on and around Lake Superior. Like Lake Superior itself, the communities of people surrounding the "Big Lake" are vast and full of variety, spanning state and international boundaries. In Lake Superior Profiles: People on the Big Lake, author John Gagnon gives readers a sense of the memorable characters who inhabit the area without attempting to take an exhaustive inventory. Instead, Gagnon met people casually and interviewed them—from a tugboat captain to an iron ore boat captain, Native Americans, and fishery biologists. Different though their stories are, all share a steadfast character, an attachment to the moody lake, and a devotion to their work. Lake Superior Profiles combines biography, history, folklore, religion, and humor in fifteen diverse chapters. In Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Gagnon visits the rivers, bays, small towns, larger cities, and nature preserves that surround Lake Superior to meet the people who make their homes there. Among those he meets are several fisherman, a botanist studying arctic wildflowers on Isle Royale, a former lighthouse keeper on a remote reef on the lake, a voyageur reenactor from Duluth, a woman who harvests wild rice each August in the Bad River Sloughs, and a monk living on the Keweenaw Peninsula. He also writes about three of the lake’s major fish species, a rock formation steeped in lore called the Sleeping Giant, and the current fragile ecology of the Big Lake. Engaging in style and varied in content, these profiles display Gagnon’s natural curiosity and storytelling acumen in illustrating the many ways the lake shapes the lives of those near it. Residents of the Lake Superior region and readers interested in the area will enjoy Lake Superior Profiles.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Introduces readers to ordinary, offbeat, and interesting people living on and around Lake Superior. Like Lake Superior itself, the communities of people surrounding the "Big Lake" are vast and full of variety, spanning state and international boundaries. In Lake Superior Profiles: People on the Big Lake, author John Gagnon gives readers a sense of the memorable characters who inhabit the area without attempting to take an exhaustive inventory. Instead, Gagnon met people casually and interviewed them—from a tugboat captain to an iron ore boat captain, Native Americans, and fishery biologists. Different though their stories are, all share a steadfast character, an attachment to the moody lake, and a devotion to their work. Lake Superior Profiles combines biography, history, folklore, religion, and humor in fifteen diverse chapters. In Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Gagnon visits the rivers, bays, small towns, larger cities, and nature preserves that surround Lake Superior to meet the people who make their homes there. Among those he meets are several fisherman, a botanist studying arctic wildflowers on Isle Royale, a former lighthouse keeper on a remote reef on the lake, a voyageur reenactor from Duluth, a woman who harvests wild rice each August in the Bad River Sloughs, and a monk living on the Keweenaw Peninsula. He also writes about three of the lake’s major fish species, a rock formation steeped in lore called the Sleeping Giant, and the current fragile ecology of the Big Lake. Engaging in style and varied in content, these profiles display Gagnon’s natural curiosity and storytelling acumen in illustrating the many ways the lake shapes the lives of those near it. Residents of the Lake Superior region and readers interested in the area will enjoy Lake Superior Profiles.
Geology and Tectonics of the Lake Superior Basin
Author: Richard John Wold
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Lake Superior Images
Author: Craig Blacklock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963499189
Category : Superior, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By Minnesota's premier photographer, Craig Blacklock, Lake Superior Images has become a classic. The original hardcover Lake Superior images made the Minneapolis Star Tribune bestseller list, and at $65 retail sold out its first printing of 10,000 copies in less than 5 months. Now available in a slightly smaller softcover edition, Lake Superior Images offers readers a fascinating glimpse of some of the most remote sections of Lake Superior's shoreline.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963499189
Category : Superior, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By Minnesota's premier photographer, Craig Blacklock, Lake Superior Images has become a classic. The original hardcover Lake Superior images made the Minneapolis Star Tribune bestseller list, and at $65 retail sold out its first printing of 10,000 copies in less than 5 months. Now available in a slightly smaller softcover edition, Lake Superior Images offers readers a fascinating glimpse of some of the most remote sections of Lake Superior's shoreline.
Sustaining Lake Superior
Author: Nancy Langston
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231660
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery and rebirth. In this important book, leading environmental historian Nancy Langston offers a rich portrait of the lake’s environmental and social history, asking what lessons we should take from the conservation recovery as this extraordinary lake faces new environmental threats. In her insightful exploration, Langston reveals hope in ecosystem resilience and the power of community advocacy, noting ways Lake Superior has rebounded from the effects of deforestation and toxic waste wrought by mining and paper manufacturing. Yet, despite the lake’s resilience, threats persist. Langston cautions readers regarding new mining interests and persistent toxic pollutants that are mobilizing with climate change.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231660
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery and rebirth. In this important book, leading environmental historian Nancy Langston offers a rich portrait of the lake’s environmental and social history, asking what lessons we should take from the conservation recovery as this extraordinary lake faces new environmental threats. In her insightful exploration, Langston reveals hope in ecosystem resilience and the power of community advocacy, noting ways Lake Superior has rebounded from the effects of deforestation and toxic waste wrought by mining and paper manufacturing. Yet, despite the lake’s resilience, threats persist. Langston cautions readers regarding new mining interests and persistent toxic pollutants that are mobilizing with climate change.
Julius F. Wolff Jr.'s Lake Superior Shipwrecks
Author: Julius Frederic Wolff
Publisher: Duluth, Minn. : Lake Superior Port Cities
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Complete history of Lake Superior shipwrecks.
Publisher: Duluth, Minn. : Lake Superior Port Cities
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Complete history of Lake Superior shipwrecks.
Altitudes Between Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains
Author: Warren Upham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Lists of Elevations Principally in that Portion of the United States West of the Mississippi River
Author: Henry Gannett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Altitudes
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Altitudes
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
House documents
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Report of the United States Deep Waterways Commission, Prepared at Detroit, Michigan, December 18-22, 1896
Author: United States. Deep Waterways Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description