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Huron The Seasons of a Great Lake Napier Shelton |
Napier
Shelton takes us on a journey as he spends a year at his family's cottage
on the lake. Having visited Lake Huron for over thirty years, Shelton weaves
family memories into his evocative and informed account of the seasons on
this great lake. In 1995, Shelton spent a year at the cottage more fully
exploring Lake Huron and its varied shores. He writes about Native American
fishing rights, small towns, the fearsome ice, and the migration of birds.
He follows the seasonal changes of life in the water. We accompany him on
commercial fishing boats, a research vessel studying lake trout, and a Coast
Guard icebreaker. We experience the travels and tragedies of venturers on
Lake Huron over the past four centuries. Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so. |
"Napier
Shelton returns off-season to a sandy shore that has absorbed his summers
for years, and gives it the gift of his attention. He has heard carefully
the human and natural stories of the region, and blends them skillfully
into a tale of a place well loved." —Leslie D. Cronin, Audubon Naturalist News |
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Lakes Books Series $39.95l cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2834-2 256 pages / 6 x 9 34 illustrations 1999 contents > prologue and extract > |
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