Huron
Subtitle: The Seasons of a Great Lake (Great Lakes Books)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780814328347
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Places & peoples: general interest; Limnology; Science; History - U.S.; Science/Mathematics; North America; General; United States - State & Local - General; Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.); Natural history
Description: 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.