Illinois & Michigan Canal: A Contemporary Perspective in Essays and Photographs

by Jim Redd

Merging narration with exhibit-quality photographs-- weaving history, nostalgia, and even a touch of romance around good graphic evidence of what the canal has become today-- Jim Redd takes us on a highly personal journey down the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it follows the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers from Chicago to La Salle.

In order to understand the whole of what the canal means now and what it has meant, Redd looks at and photographs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316609
• ISBN13: 9780809316601
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"