By Jerry Dennis
Our state is fortunate to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore---his most recent effort---is a fantastically written and elegiac memoir of out of doors discovery. hugely recommended!---Douglas Brinkley, writer of The desolate tract Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the campaign for America "Come for a trip; remain for an awakening. Jerry Dennis loves the nice Lakes, the swell of each wave, the curve of each rock. He wishes you to like them too prior to our collective trashing of them wipes out all strains in their unique personality. via his eyes, you are going to treasure the hidden secrets and techniques that show themselves in basic terms to those that linger and lengthy. based and unhappy while, The Windward Shore is a love music for the good Lakes and a mild name to motion to avoid wasting them."---Maude Barlow, writer of Blue Covenant: the worldwide Water hindrance and the arrival conflict for the suitable to Water "In prose as transparent because the strains in a D?rer etching, Jerry Dennis maps his domestic floor, which levels outward from the again door of his farmhouse to surround the area of substantial inland seas on the middle of our continent. alongside the best way, encouraged by means of the corporate of water in all its guises---ice, snow, frost, clouds, rain, shore-lapping waves---he meditates at the historic questions on brain and subject, time and a focus, wildness and beauty. As within the most sensible American nature writing---a culture that Dennis is aware well---here where and the explorer come jointly in incredible conversation."---Scott Russell Sanders, writer of A Conservationist ManifestoIf you've been enchanted via Jerry Dennis’s past paintings on crusing the nice Lakes, canoeing, angling, and the normal wonders of water and sky—or you haven't but been fortunate adequate to get pleasure from his enticing prose—you probably want to immerse your self in his robust and insightful new booklet on wintry weather in nice Lakes kingdom. Grounded by way of a knee harm, Dennis learns to dwell at a slower speed whereas staying in homes starting from a log cabin on Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Peninsula to a $20 million mansion at the northern shore of Lake Michigan. whereas jogging on shores and exploring within sight woods and villages, he muses at the nature of time, climate, waves, agates, books, phrases for snow and ice, our advanced courting with nature, and masses extra. From the creation: “I desired to current a real photograph of a fancy zone, a part of my carrying on with venture to profit a minimum of one position on the earth quite good, and relied on that it should look progressively and accumulatively—and now not as a traditional portrait, yet as a mosaic that integrated the sounds and smells and textures of where and a few of the vegetation, animals, and its population. strengthened by means of the proposal ebook is a trip that writer and reader stroll jointly, i might look for promising trails and stick with them so far as my reconstructed knee could allow.” (20111221)