Across the Great Lake

by Lee Zacharias

Book Overview

"It was a huge and powerful ship with a tall, handsome pilothouse and big smoking stacks, no place for a girl, though I loved it, I cannot tell you how much I loved it." In her eighty-fifth year, Fern Halvorson tells the story of a childhood journey across Lake Michigan and the secret she has kept since that ill-fated voyage.

As his wife lies dying in the brutally cold winter of 1936, Henrik Halvorsen takes his daughter Fern away with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299320901
• ISBN13: 9780299320904
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"