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The Windward Shore - Jerry Dennis

The Windward Shore

A Winter on the Great Lakes

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Buch | Hardcover
152 Seiten
2011
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-11816-8 (ISBN)
CHF 35,90 inkl. MwSt
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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.
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.

Jerry Dennis is the author of many literary and popular works about nature, science, and outdoor recreation. His essays and stories in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, National Geographic Traveler, Gray's Sporting Journal, and many other publications have won numerous awards and are frequently anthologized. His books are widely acclaimed and have been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Czech. In 1999 the Michigan Library Association named Dennis the Michigan Author of the Year. He and his wife, Gail, live near the shore of Lake Michigan not far from Traverse City. www.jerrydennis.net

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.9.2011
Zusatzinfo 15 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 456 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Reiseführer Nord- / Mittelamerika USA
ISBN-10 0-472-11816-1 / 0472118161
ISBN-13 978-0-472-11816-8 / 9780472118168
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