A Trip on the Great Lakes
A Trip on the Great Lakes

Author: Raymond S. Spears

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780265527566

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Excerpt from A Trip on the Great Lakes: Description of a Trip, Summer, by a Skiff, Traveler, Who Loves "Outdoors;" Tells, of Fish, Fur, Game and Other, Things of Interest The Fisherman's Dock Dressing a Lake Trout Loading Fish Boxes Fisherman's Cabin and Drying Dipping Up Minnows Drawing the Minnow Seine In the Gill Net. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Great Lakes Journey
Great Lakes Journey

Author: William Ashworth

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2003-07-09

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780814328378

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A detailed picture of the status of the Great Lakes at the end of the twentieth century.

Great Lakes Journey
Great Lakes Journey

Author: William Ashworth

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2003-07-09

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0814339999

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Great Lakes Journey is a follow-up to William Ashworth's earlier book The Late, Great Lakes, published in 1986. Fifteen years after his first trip, Ashworth journeys to many of the same places and talks to many of the same people to examine the changes that have taken place along the Great Lakes since the 1980s. Through personal observation, research, and numerous interviews with scientists, activists, and government agencies, Ashworth creates a detailed picture of the status of the Great Lakes at the end of the twentieth century. Among the most prominent changes he finds are the arrival of the zebra mussel and other exotic species, the rise and fall of the RAP process for pollution cleanup, a growing public mistrust of government action, a substantial loss of habitat and biodiversity, and an explosion of urban sprawl along the shores of the Lakes. Great Lakes Journey is a welcome update on the latest issues affecting the Great Lakes region.

A Fashionable Tour Through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi
A Fashionable Tour Through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi

Author: Juliette Starr Dana

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780814332054

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In 1850s America it was extremely uncommon, if not unheard of, for a woman to travel without an escort for her own pleasure. Railroads did not yet reach the Mississippi, rapids barred ships from Lake Superior, and American Indians still inhabited the frontier. Traveling from New York City to Lake Superior's shores, the Mississippi River, and the newly created Minnesota Territory was most definitely not the ideal vacation - or was it? A Fashionable Tour through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi is the complete daily journal written by Juliette Star Dana, a 35-year-old wife and mother, during her nine-week pleasure tour over three thousand miles of the United States in the summer of 1852. Traveling the frontier roads of rivers and lakes with only a female companion and her teenage son, Juliette sought the scenic water-falls and shorelines along with such man-made sights as copper and lead mines, factories, military posts, and a prison. Juliette chronicles these places and the people therein - American Indians, soldiers, lawyers, and politicians - with engrossing detail and also describes the journey's numerous hardships of accidents, vermin, sickness, and disease. This one-of-a