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Jerry Dennis
It was a real treat to read this last summer while in Michigan. The combination of human and natural history this author brought to light was genuinely fascinating. Having read Tocqueville in America a few months before, I had a cross referencing experience when reading about the white pine forests of Michigan in this book. The two accounts matched nicely. Also, the use of a voyage to tie the facts together in a memorable whole worked quite well. He followed the lakes all the way past Niagra and down the Erie canal to the Hudson and beyond. That was interesting too.
