Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country

by Allan Casey

Book Overview

Winner of the Governor General's award for Nonfiction In this wry, sensual, and entertaining journey into the greatest lake country on earth, Allan Casey examines how lakes provide an open door to wilderness for average people, how our deepest relationships with nature may be forged on their shores. It is a tale of hope and threat combined, for our colonization of the lakeshore can diminish the very qualities that draw us there from the city--beauty,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B009WH6SHG
• ISBN13: 9781553658856
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"