Mysterious Islands: The Forgotten Tales of the Great Lakes

by Barbara Chisholm, Andrea Gutsche, Cindy Bisaillon

Book Overview

Mysterious Islands is an adventurous historical journey to islands found within the vast basin of the five Great Lakes. Why Islands? Islands stand removed and alone-it is this isolation that has made... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894073118
• ISBN13: 9781894073110
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Lynx Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Forgotten Lore of the Inland Seas

Here we have one of those books that will fascinate a reader seeking an interesting story to pass the time. Its one of those excellent regional history books that you can pick up and open at random and find something that will enthrall your curiosity for hours. Providing several stories of generally obscure and forgotten events and people in the history of the Great Lakes, I must say I have been looking for something like this for quite some time. The stories contained within cover maritime, military, economic, and civic aspects of the region's history, mostly in the 19th century. In general, its one of those books that tells us that the story of your part of the country is far more dramatic than most people know. If you are from the Great Lakes region, U.S. or Canadian side, I would say you should read this. I have not seen this book in any bookstores outside the Great Lakes states, but I would recommend it to anyone interested in the inland seas.

picked it up, couldn't put it down

There are those of us from the Great Lakes region who become infected with these sweetwater seas--and I am one of them. The Great Lakes offer so much in the area of recreation in swimming, fishing, boating and just watching. They also offer much in stories and tales of people, places and events on or by the water.I was accompanying my son on a grade school field trip and came across this book in a gift store. I picked it up and found that I could not put it down...so I bought it and read it straight thru.This book is filled with the people and events that occured on many of the islands that exist in this lake system. Stories of people and places that are rarely found in our history books, or at most hinted at.This book is a must have for anyone who collects tales of the Great Lakes.