Author: Cynthia Davis

Each recognizable image shimmers with a touch of fantasy befitting the area.
---Grand Rapids Press

Traverse City is Michigan's own city by the bay, with shops, restaurants, and a stunning shoreline, while the Leela ...

Author: Michael John Haddock

How do you know when you're face to face with a fringe-leaf ruellia? Is that particular flower button gayfeather or dotted gayfeather? And what about the pod clinging to your pants-could it have come from a pointed-leaf ...

Author: J.Jerzy Hildebrand

In places as remote as Alaska's north slope and as familiar as a mid-western family farm there are tensions that exist between nature and the people who define a given land as home. People drawn to the wilderness are oft ...

Author: Jerome Pohlen

This zany travel guide presents a more peculiar state than the Iowa Tourism Office might like out-of-towners to imagine. Leaving out the traditional scenic trips to the Mississippi River bluffs and the Amana Colonies, th ...

Author: Bill Witt

From 1843, when the first collections were made, until 1987, when an amateur botanist discovered the only known Iowa site for spring ladies tresses, thirty-two species of orchids have been recorded in Iowa. The state's w ...

Author: Alan Boye

First published in 1939, Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State was collaboratively written by the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). As part of the Works Project Administration, the FWP gathered together some of the bes ...

Author: Jim DuFresne

The first reference book to the sand dunes of Michigan that includes outdoor activities The Complete Guide to Michigan Sand Dunes presents an inclusive description of everything you need to know about one of Michigan's m ...

Author: Deborah Morse-Kahn

Lake Superior's North Shore - the vast stretch between Duluth and Grand Portage - is nearly 150 miles long, with an abundance of state parks, state and national forests, streams and rivers, and over thirty distinct commu ...

Author: Sven Olof Swartling & William Widule

A guide to the fractures, cracks, ledges, slabs and other rock formations of Devil's Lake State Park, the most popular climbing spot in the American Midwest. The book describes more than 1600 climbs and includes revision ...

Author: Sven Olof Swartling & Pete Mayer

Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formations where the Ice Age glacier's terminal moraine meets an ancient landscape ...

Author: Unofficial Guides

This title comes from the publishers of The Unofficial Guide[registered] to Walt Disney World[registered]. 'A Tourist's Best Friend!' - Chicago Sun-Times. 'Indispensable' - The New York Times. The top 10 ways through whi ...

Author: Sara St Antoine

This delightful anthology conveys not only the richness of nature in the Great Lakes region, but also the importance it holds for so many of its inhabitants. Shaped by glaciers, the area has been home to diverse Native A ...

Author: Stephen Ostrander

The Ohio Nature Almanac is the first and most complete volume on the Buckeye State's natural history and outdoor recreation sites. Think of this landmark encyclopedia as your personal laptop for learning and leisure. It ...

Author: Walter A. Schroeder and Howard W. Marshall

Once considered a foolish boondoggle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, the Federal Writers' Project was initiated to allow employment opportunity to those associated with the arts during the G ...

Author: Alison Swan

Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a collection of nonfiction works by women writers from throughout the United States and Canada. These works focus on living with the five interconnected, freshwater seas t ...

Author: Betty Vos Hemstad

Travellers in the Boundary Waters find much to draw the eye, not least of which is a profusion of wildflowers at every turn. For the unstudied hiker, what better way to meet these plants than with a friend to guide your ...

Author: Stephen B. Daniel

Beneath the icy waters of Lake Superior lies a vast museum of maritime treasures, relics, and souls that in years past were lost to the crashing waves of this massive body of water. Today, those who remain on the surface ...

Author: John A. Jakle

'Will it play in Peoria?' That question - only half-joking - hovers over everything from politics to television, an acknowledgment that the Midwest is perhaps the most emblematic region of the United States today. Stereo ...

Author: Tom Savage

Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin - Iowa's place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, fam ...

Author: David S. Faldet

'The river, like a keen memory, carries a record of the past.' David Faldet has spent forty years in the basin of the Upper Iowa River, which winds from the flat farm fields of southern Minnesota through the wooded valle ...