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Essential Books These 3 items are available for $46, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSM09)		  
Lake Country, A Series of Journeys  •  Kathleen Stocking
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1994 •  PAPER  • 245 PAGES
In this second collection of 21 essays, Stocking writes with great affection and enthusiasm for her native Michigan. Themes of spirituality, nature and humanity permeate her reflections on Michigan's wildlife, small towns, local residents and the college town of Ann Arbor. The author lives on the Leelanau Peninsula in Northwest Michgan, where many of the tales are set. (USM05, $19.95)		   Lake Country, A Series of Journeys
Making Hay  •  Verlyn Klinkenborg
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES
The author rhapsodizes on agrarian life in the Midwest as he travels from Iowa to Minnesota to Montana. And make no mistake: the title isn't a metaphor or a pun -- it's the main subject of the book. (USA17, $12.95)		   Making Hay
Great Plains  •  Ian Frazier
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 292 PAGES
A marvelously digressive, wide-ranging account of a journey throughout the plains. Frazier captures the wide-open landscapes, history, environmental contradictions and, especially, the legends and people of the Great Plains. An intrepid traveler -- and voracious reader -- Frazier clocked 25,000 miles in an old van criss-crossing the land where the buffalo once roamed. (USW172, $15.00)		   Great Plains



Also Recommended

Great Lakes & New York Map, Northeast  •  Borch Maps    •  A handy laminated map. (USE492, $9.95)
 		  
Fodor's Chicago's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide to Chicago, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights. (GLK06, $11.99)
 		  
Insiders' Guide to St. Louis  •  Dawne Massey   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to the city. (USM109, $16.95)
 		  
Moon Handbook Michigan  •  Tina Lassen   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guidebook features traveling information on the Great Lakes and the Upper Peninsula regions of Michigan. (USM04, $19.99)
 		  
Moon Handbooks Kentucky  •  Theresa Dowell Blackinton   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy practical guide the popular series. (USM153, $19.99)
 		  
At the Edge of the Precipice, Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union  •  Robert V. Remini   • HISTORY  •  National Book Award-winner Remini tells how the Kentucky statesman brokered a bipartisan solution (the "Compromise of 1850") to the slavery question for the new territories in the wake of the Mexican-American War. (USM155, $15.99)
 		  
City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America  •  Donald L. Miller   • HISTORY  •  As blustery and swaggering as the Chicago of myth, this monumental biography of the city takes in the sweep of its history from the days of Joliette, Marquette and other explorers, to the celebrated 1893 Chicago Fair . (GLK05, $18.95)
 		  
Davenport, Jewel of the Mississippi  •  David Collins   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This slim book in the Images of America series documents in archival photographs the history of the port city from frontier days through its boom, turn-of-the-century challenges, up to he 1950s. (USM113, $21.99)
 		  
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn  •  Joseph M., III Marshall   • HISTORY  •  Drawing on oral histories passed down from Lakota witnesses of the battle, Marshall re-casts Little Bighorn from the perspective of the Native American victors. (USW544, $15.00)
 		  
The Great Plains  •  Walter Prescott Webb   • HISTORY  •  Originally published in 1931, this classic and still provocative book traces the mindset and circumstances that pushed the settlers west. (USW179, $28.50)
 		  
The Long Ships Passing, The Story of the Great Lakes  •  Walter Havighurst   • HISTORY  •  A vivid popular history of the Great Lakes, rich in anecdote, incident and drama. Havighurst recounts the early days of ships and shipping on the Great Lakes from the time of the early French voyageurs through the industrialization of the region at the turn of the century. (GLK27, $17.95)
 		  
The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation  •  Stephen Ambrose  •  Douglas Brinkley   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This illustrated popular history -- and travelogue -- tells the story of the great river from the time of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. (USM110, $40.00)
 		  
Boss, Richard J. Daley of Chicago  •  Mike Royko   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A groundbreaking account of the man and his political machine by Chicago's favorite columnist, published in 1970 while Daley was still in office. (USM28, $15.00)
 		  
North Country, A Personal Journey  •  Howard Frank Mosher   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Novelist Mosher captures the spirit of the north in this wonderfully wrought portrait of borderland places and personalities. (CND02, $14.95)
 		  
The Falcon, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner  •  Louise Erdrich  •  John Tanner   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The autobiography of a white man who lived among the Ojibwa in the north woods of Minnesota in the early 19th century. (GLK19, $15.00)
 		  
So Long, See You Tomorrow  •  William Maxwell   • LITERATURE  •  A lyrical classic, evocative of childhood, responsibility and life in rural Illinois. (USM50, $13.00)
 		  
The Adventures of Augie March  •  Saul Bellow   • LITERATURE  •  A celebrated tale of a poor Jewish boy, rich in the life and atmosphere of 1930's Chicago. (USM27, $17.00)
 		  
The Antelope Wife  •  Louise Erdrich   • LITERATURE  •  Erdrich's tale of urban Indians in Minneapolis is a graceful, multigenerational meditation on Ojibwa history and culture. (USM52, $13.99)
 		  
The Bluest Eye  •  Toni Morrison   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Ohio, this hauntingly beautiful novel describes an African-American girl's desire for beauty. (USM59, $14.00)
 		  
The Confidence-Man  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  Melville's last novel, the tale of a gambler and con man on a Mississippi River steam boat. (USM112, $12.95)
 		  
The Devil in the White City, Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America  •  Erik Larson   • LITERATURE  •  This fascinating account of Chicago's 1893 World's Fair interweaves the true stories of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor, who terrorized its visitors. (USM123, $15.95)
 		  
The Emigrants  •  Vilhelm Moberg  •  Gustaf Lannestock   • LITERATURE  •  The first in a series of four novels about Swedish emigrants who flee poverty and oppression to make a new life in Minnesota. (SWE14, $19.95)
 		  
Winesburg, Ohio  •  Sherwood Anderson   • LITERATURE  •  The classic cycle of short stories evoking life in a 19th-century, Midwest town. (USM60, $5.95)
 		  
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There  •  Aldo Leopold   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Leopold memorably opens this much-loved, essential collection of essays on land, nature and his farm in Wisconsin, first published in 1948, with the statement: "there are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot." The book has lost none of its power or beauty over the years. The book is also available in a commemorative hard cover gift edition (NAT111, $40.00) with 85 color photographs. (NAT02, $15.95)
 		  
Great Lakes Wildlife  •  Raymond Leung  •  James Kavanaugh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This laminated fold-out card illustrates almost 150 animals in the Great Lakes region. (GLK26, $5.95)
 		  
Know Your Ships  •  Roger LeLievre   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An aficionado's field guide to the ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. The freighter fleets of all the shipping companies are listed, along with the vital statistics for each ship. (GLK12, $18.95)
 		  
Mammals of the Great Lakes Region  •  James F. Parnell  •  Allen Kurta  •  Scott A. Schwemmin   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A detailed, photographic reference manual on the mammals of the Great Lakes region. (GLK16, $18.95)
 		  
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •  Jon Dunn   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, Nova Scotia and Florida, this guide is the veteran's choice for birding anywhere in the United States. Tabbed for easy access, the color range maps in this sixth edition are outstanding. (FG09, $27.95)
 		  
 
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