Northern Passages: Reflections from Lake Superior Country
- ISBN-10
- 1879483408
- ISBN-13
- 9781879483408
- Category
- Nature / General
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Prairie Oak Press
- Author
- Michael Van Stappen
Description
In this book of outdoor essays poet and essayist Van Stappen captures the spirit of northwestern Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan -- Lake Superior country -- in four seasons.
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