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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299320944
• ISBN13: 9780299320942
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"