The Great Lakes/Great Books conversation bunch is back this tumble to investigate books with a Great Lakes center.
This season’s chosen books are Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes by William Rapai for September; Shelter: Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North by Sarah Stonich for October; The Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of the Naturalist Thure Kumlien by Martha Bergland for November; The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes by Lynne Heasley for December; The Lighthouse Road: A Novel by Peter Geye for January; Sailor’s Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters by Mark L. Thompson for February; Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade by Timothy Cochrane for March; Voyageurs: A Novel by Margaret Elphinstone for April; and This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home, altered by John Zimm, for May
