Reviews
By Elle Andra-Warner
A timeless tale with plenty of history and a fair dose of mystery, Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipwreck is a fascinating account of the 1975 wreck of the Fitzgerald during a Lake Superior storm and the total loss of its crew.
Elle Andra-Warner’s very readable book presents more than just the tale of the wreck, delving into the history of the Fitzgerald family, the rise of the shipping industry on the Great Lakes (and the wrecks that accompanied it), and a little background on the ferocity of Lake Superior’s weather. —Kate Watson
By Bob Cary
With beautiful watercolor illustrations and thorough descriptions of how it all works Born to Pull tells you everything you ever wanted to know about sled dogs. You’ll learn the basics of mushing and the dynamics of dog teams, along with many fascinating dog sledding stories from veteran Minnesota mushers. —Kate Watson
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Edited by David Backes
If you enjoy reading passages of outdoor writing as Olson did while you’re outdoors, Spirit of the North is the perfect book for you. It’s packed with excerpts of Olson’s insightful words, along with a chronology of his life and biographical information at the beginning of each section. It’s even pocket-sized, giving you the perfect opportunity to take Olson along as a companion on your next excursion—and who better to join you? —Kate Watson
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By Elle Avon A
This unusual “hunting” book is for the single girl with a sense of humor. The author adapts the rules of deer hunting to dating so women can capture the perfect buck. Included is such pithy advce as “Never hunt with a posse: It’s no fun sharing the kill.” While the author hunts the “urban forest” of New York City, there is even section devoted to the “Outdoory Buck.” Bucks everywhere, beware! —Shawn Perich
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Set in Alabaster Bay, near a gypsum quarry on the North Shore of Lake Superior, our narrator walks us through a tale of his harrowing childhood in a seemingly quiet mining town into an equally disturbing adulthood.
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Since surviving the terrible 1914 sinking of the Empress of Ireland where 1,012 lives were lost, 12-year old Saara Mäki has been plagued with one question: ‘’What is the purpose of my life?”
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If you’ve spent any time in Cook County, Minnesota, most likely you’ve met someone who is featured in Superior Artisans,
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Andrew and Ann Goldman give a face to Ely through photographs of residents and evocative essays about the people and the region.
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This handy pocket-sized book is a great guide to the many historical locations along the Minnesota portion of the North Shore.
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Campers will discover a ton of useful information crammed into this 132-page book.
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Born in 1902, Bill Magie spent much of his life in the Quetico-Superior canoe country and was instrumental in establishing the area as a wilderness. Dave Olesen met him late in life and collected these stories—unvarnished and occasionally stretching the truth—about an era when the canoe country was the realm of Indians, loggers, trappers, surveyors, and others who lived beyond the reach of civilization.
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