Around the Shores of Lake Superior by Margaret Beattie Bogue

Around the Shores of Lake Superior by Margaret Beattie Bogue

Around the Shores of Lake Superior is an ideal trip planner and a unique guide to the region. Margaret Beattie Bogue evokes the richness of local history and highlights hundreds of landmarks and points of interest that surround the lake. Grand Portage, Fort William Historical Park, the Agawa Canyon Pictographs, Isle Royale, and the Pictured Rocks and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores are just a few of the many sites featured, each with a short descriptive history, directions, and contact information. In keeping with the guide's easy-to-follow organization, all sites are keyed to a foldout map pocketed in the book's back cover. and human history of the region - the Ojibwe presence, French exploration, industry on and around the lake, and the impact of this history on the natural environment. With more than 200 color and black-and-white images, this updated and greatly expanded second edition will enrich the appreciation of the region for both visitors and residents of the upper Great Lakes.

Margaret Beattie Bogue is professor emerita of history and liberal studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She is the author of Around the Shores of Lake Michigan and the award-winning Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History.

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ISBN 13	9780299221744
ISBN 10	0299221741
Title	Around the Shores of Lake Superior
Author	Margaret Beattie Bogue
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Wisconsin Press
Year published	2007-04-30
Number of pages	352
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