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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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Insects of all sorts are easy to identify with this new, comprehensive field guide.
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The Singing Life of Birds
Birdsong, welcome music as spring arrives, is a wondrously diverse method of vocal communication. The author, a leading expert in “avian vocal behavior,” explains how and why birds sing and how we can better understand them through their songs. The book contains a with recordings of bird songs that , when matched with graphic sonograms in the book, allows the reader to hear birds sing as never before.
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Birdsong, welcome music as spring arrives, is a wondrously diverse method of vocal communication. The author, a leading expert in “avian vocal behavior,” explains how and why birds sing and how we can better understand them through their songs. The book contains a with recordings of bird songs that , when matched with graphic sonograms in the book, allows the reader to hear birds sing as never before.
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Wild About Minnesota Birds, A Youth’s Guide to the Birds of Minnesota
This visually attractive book presents a wealth of information about the bird species common to Minnesota’s forests, fields, and cityscapes. Although the target readers are youth, anyone with an interest in birds will enjoy this book. In addition to life histories of various birds, information about habitat types helps the reader understand why birds live where they do.
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This visually attractive book presents a wealth of information about the bird species common to Minnesota’s forests, fields, and cityscapes. Although the target readers are youth, anyone with an interest in birds will enjoy this book. In addition to life histories of various birds, information about habitat types helps the reader understand why birds live where they do.
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The Fish House Book, Life On Ice In The Northland
Ice fishing occurs in many cold places, but a book like this could only be produced in Minnesota. The author is a professional photographer who chronicled the state’s fish shanty culture. For ice anglers, this book is a tour of the familiar. For everyone else, it’s a window to another world. In either case, it’s a job well done.
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Ice fishing occurs in many cold places, but a book like this could only be produced in Minnesota. The author is a professional photographer who chronicled the state’s fish shanty culture. For ice anglers, this book is a tour of the familiar. For everyone else, it’s a window to another world. In either case, it’s a job well done.
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Almost Tomorrow, The Poetry of Ray Nargis
Ray Nargis is a storyteller. And in this book are stories of people and places in his life, told in poetry. These simple, readable poems are easy to understand—and they are the better for it. A native of northern Michigan, the setting of some poems, Nargis now lives in Ely, where, among other things, he hosts The Pathways radio program on WELY.
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Ray Nargis is a storyteller. And in this book are stories of people and places in his life, told in poetry. These simple, readable poems are easy to understand—and they are the better for it. A native of northern Michigan, the setting of some poems, Nargis now lives in Ely, where, among other things, he hosts The Pathways radio program on WELY.
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Cold and stormy Lake Superior is a legendary graveyard for vessels large and small, but the 1975 wreck of the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald is the best known, perhaps due to the popular song by Gordon Lightfoot. All 29 men onboard were lost when the ship went down in the heavy seas of a November storm.
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Northland Creatures Great and Small, a DVD produced by Take it Home, Inc., of Duluth, MN, marries master photographer Paul Sundberg’s still images of the elusive creatures of the northern woods with the haunting melodies of 14-year-old, prodigy pianist Elisha Stokes.
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Wild Minnesota: A Celebration of Our State’s Natural Beauty will either make you proud to be a Minnesotan or make you wish you were one.
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Emphasizing tradition over trendy, this an excellent compendium of practical information about winter camping and travel in the North.
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