Written by Lon L. Emeric (a fifth-generation descendant of Cornish copper miners), Going Back To Central: On The Road In Search Of The Past In Michigan's Upper Peninsula impressively presents a combination travelogue and personal journey through Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Colorful characters, breathtaking landscapes, and memorable pieces of folklore are all retold in captivating detail. Going Back To Central is especially commended to the attention of anyone with an interest in American History in general, and the Upper Peninsula country of Michigan in particular.

I wish this book would be updated.

This book captures the personality of our amazing city, in all its honesty, in all its glory.

Great guide for the Native American Territories. Very helpful in determining what sites to visit in Blackfeet and Cheyenne country. Interesting tidbits of history combined with information on activities suited for young children and teens make this guide the best!!!!

The Great Indiana Touring Book: 20 Spectacular Auto Trips by native Midwesterner and Indiana travel buff Thomas Huhti is a first-rate guide to natural parks, Lincoln memorials, historical sites, art galleries, and much more that fill this proud state rich in cultural heritage. Maps, a color insert section, black-and-white photographs, explicit directions, and a wonderful narrated tour through all corners of the state comprise the superbly practical and informative showcasing twenty singularly impressive car-based excursions. If you are planning an Indiana-bound RV or automobile oriented vacation adventure, begin your planning with a careful reading of Thomas Huhti's The Great Indiana Touring Book.

This book contains 21 "postcards" of Great Lakes lighthouses. Although I wouldn't use them as postcards, they are great glossy 4x6 photos on hard card stock, even suitable for framing. A wide range of lighthouses thruout the Great Lakes region, winter photos, spring and fall and even summer.

My favorite photo is the full moon over the Whitefish Point Light Station on Lake Superior. The night shot at the Grand Haven Lighthouse is a close second. These photos give inspiration as to what a lighthouse photo session should try to achieve.

I came across McFadden's "A Trip Around Lake Erie" about eight years ago, when a clerk at Schwartz Booksellers in Milwaukee recommended it. In the days before amazon.com, I spent a couple years collecting the trilogy, which took me to bookstores in Minnesota and McFadden's hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, which really is as dirty, dreary and burnt-out as McFadden describes it.

McFadden mixes fiction and non-fiction together as he tells the story of his family's road trip in a Volkswagen camper around Lake Erie. He later wrote about their travel adventures as they toured the Lake Huron area. He had planned to write about trips around each of the Great Lakes, but then his kids grew up and he got a divorce. Ten years after he went around Erie and Huron, he finally tackled Lake Ontario alone, except for a three-man film crew that followed behind him and tried to stay out of his tale.

The reader is never sure whether McFadden is telling the truth or making it up. It doesn't detract from the story. Actually, it's a hoot when you come across the surreal parts of his tales. At one point in "A Trip Around Lake Erie," dead fish somehow migrate from the beach at Point Pelee to every room in the McFadden's Hamilton, Ontario home.

Each short chapter (many lasting less than one page) is a sly little poem. A movie scriptwriter had told McFadden that to make these books more saleable, he should have someone chasing him. McFadden doesn't need such Hollywood conventions. His stories of the road and his many digressions (including bicycling kinesiologists and a brown dachsund named Schenley, because his owners like the whisky)are a fanciful read in themselves.

I hope McFadden eventually makes it around Superior and Lake Michigan. Even if he doesn't, there's enough humor and magic in this fine trilogy to keep you smiling for years.

I also recommend a fourth McFadden road trip, "A Typical Canadian Family Visits Disney World," which is a hilarious long poem that is not included here, along with his other novels, poems and essays.

I think the people that will like this book will be people that like to hunt. This book talks about how people got their deer and what happened when they did. If you don't like to hunt, then you won't really like this book.
One of the best parts of the book is the pictures, and the hunters showing and telling how they got their deer. There were many different hunters and their roles were to hunt deer and kill deer to get big bucks.

...let me tell you a few things -- it really is the best darned guide to Wisconsin you'll ever find. He hit most every backroad in in the state. This book is different than the usual guides in that it focuses on the fun to drive wiggly roads that driving enthusiasts enjoy -- AND has an insiders view of where to go, stop, eat, play and shoot pictures. My husband says the publishers should have given it a better title...something like "The Cows Made us Do it"....but I suggest you get a copy and check out these tours. They're NOT your usual dash from one attraction to another. You'll have a great time. MPK

Very easy to use and understand. Clear printing and large pages. Everyone who has looked at my copy has been impressed. It would be nice to have the map expanded a bit more to cover additional suburbs.