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Door County's Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park
Door County's Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park
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The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Covering much of southwestern Wisconsin, its contours were deeply carved from bedrock, not by ice but by many rivers.
Crossing the Driftless is both a traveler's tale and an exploration of this dramatic environment, following the streams of geologic and human history. Lynne Diebel and her husband, Bob, crossed the Driftless Area by canoe, journeying 359 river miles (and six Mississippi River locks and five portages) from Faribault, Minnesota, where her family has a summer home on Cedar Lake, to their Wisconsin home in Stoughton, one block from the Yahara River. Traveling by river and portage, they paddled downstream on the Cannon and Mississippi rivers and upstream on the Wisconsin River, in the tradition of voyageurs. Lynne tells the story of their trip, but also the stories of the rivers they canoed and the many tributaries whose confluences they passed. Finalist, Travel, Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards Honorable mention, Nonfiction book, Council for Wisconsin Writers Winner, Recreation/Sports/Travel, Midwest Book Awards Best books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association
Author: William H. Tishler
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/24/2015
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.38w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780299220747
Crossing the Driftless is both a traveler's tale and an exploration of this dramatic environment, following the streams of geologic and human history. Lynne Diebel and her husband, Bob, crossed the Driftless Area by canoe, journeying 359 river miles (and six Mississippi River locks and five portages) from Faribault, Minnesota, where her family has a summer home on Cedar Lake, to their Wisconsin home in Stoughton, one block from the Yahara River. Traveling by river and portage, they paddled downstream on the Cannon and Mississippi rivers and upstream on the Wisconsin River, in the tradition of voyageurs. Lynne tells the story of their trip, but also the stories of the rivers they canoed and the many tributaries whose confluences they passed. Finalist, Travel, Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards Honorable mention, Nonfiction book, Council for Wisconsin Writers Winner, Recreation/Sports/Travel, Midwest Book Awards Best books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association
Author: William H. Tishler
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/24/2015
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.38w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780299220747
About the Author
William H. Tishler is a Door County native and professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An award-winning author, he developed the master plan for Old World Wisconsin and has served as chair of the Wisconsin Historic Preservation Review Board.
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