IN THE TEETH OF THE NORTHEASTER - A Solo Voyage on Lake Superior by Bree, Marlin - 1988

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1988. 214 pp. Quarter-bound in gray cloth on blue boards; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white plates. Here is a fun fact: There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid. A less fun fact: including the Edmund Fitzgerald, there have been well over sixty shipwrecks on Lake Superior, although if you start counting boats and canoes, the number lost leaps into the thousands. The chapters are: Storm over Superior; The Dream Begins; Return to the Lake; Madeline: Enchanted Island; Moon Over Red Cliff; The Old Fishing Village of Cornucopia; The Skiff at Port Wing; At the Head of the Lake; To Barker's Island and Back; The Mystery of the (Edmund) Fitzgerald; Up the Dark Shore; Trapped at Silver Bay; Wilderness at Isle Royale; To the Gold Coast; Passage to Thunder Bay; End of the Voyage; and Dreams of Distant Shores.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.