In the Shadow of the Bear: A Michigan Memoir

by Jim McGavran

In the Shadow of the Bear chronicles the author's return, after a forty-year absence, to the site of his childhood summer vacations at Little Glen Lake in northwestern Lower Michigan's Leelanau peninsula.
The ancient Ojibwa legend that gave a name to the area's most striking geographical feature, the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, offers a way of understanding his mother's powerful but sometimes restless force of love and ambition in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870139819
• ISBN13: 9780870139819
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"