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Overview
Every summer thousands of travelers journey northward from Sault Ste. Marie, following the old route of the fur trade canoes past Batchawana, Agawa, and Michipicoten westward to the Pic River, west again past Nipigon and Thunder Bay, then south and across the border to Grand Portage. Those who have traveled these 450 miles of Superior's north shore are already acquainted with the splendor of the region, and with its dramatic contrasts.As they traveled mainly by canoe along the north shore of Superior, Bruce Littlejohn and Wayland Drew found two of these contrasts especially haunting, and these recur as themes throughout the book. The first is the co-existence of power and fragility- of the immensity of landscape opposed to the astonishing resiliency of delicate plant and animal life. The second is the humbling insignificance of the human record beside that of the rocks of Lake Superior- ten restless millennia against three billion somber years of endurance.
Superior: The Haunted Shore is a plea for the integrity of the wilderness, for the authors consider the wild places to be the birthright of the generations who will travel this route after them.
Book Details
Published
June 16, 1995
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Pages
176
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781895565584