
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so.
Napier Shelton takes us on a journey as he spends a year at his family's cottage on the lake. Having visited Lake Huron for over thirty years, Shelton weaves family memories into his evocative and informed account of the seasons on this great lake. In 1995, Shelton spent a year at the cottage more fully exploring Lake Huron and its varied shores. He writes about Native American fishing rights, small towns, the fearsome ice, and the migration of birds. He follows the seasonal changes of life in the water. We accompany him on commercial fishing boats, a research vessel studying lake trout, and a Coast Guard icebreaker. We experience the travels and tragedies of venturers on Lake Huron over the past four centuries.
Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: What Lies Beyond the Summer?
- 1. The Cottage
- 2. Port Sanilac
- 3. Up North
- 4. Ice
- 5. Fish and Birds in Winter
- 6. Avian Highways
- 7. The Base of the Pyramid
- 8. Fishing for a Living
- 9. Managing the Fisheries
- 10. Lake Trout and Lampreys
- 11. Restoring the Lake
- 12. June Shores
- 13. Colonial Waterbirds
- 14. The Summer Pause
- 15. Small Boats, Long Journeys
- 16. Fall Comes Down the Lake
- 17. Big Boats, Killer Storms
- 18. Birds at Christmas
- 19. Closing Up
- Appendix 1: Common and Scientific Names of Plants
- Appendix 2: Fishes of Lake Huron
- Principal Published Sources