Book description
Conor Mihell offers a compelling image of Lake Superior's Canadian
shore through colourful personality sketches, adventure stories, and
environmental accounts. Admire the kitschy decor of lighthouse
cottager Maureen Robertson, a 76-year-old who spends six months of the
year alone on a remote island; enter the debate over a controversial
aggregate quarry in Wawa, Ontario; and learn how the author's love
affair with the world's largest freshwater lake began on quests for a
near-mystical, glacier-dropped monolith.
Mihell's stories build on Lake Superior's rich and varied history
and support its critical place in Canadian culture. Since the
beginning, Lake Superior has been revered for its God-like qualities
of power, unpredictability, and a seemingly endless expanse of
life-sustaining freshwater. The lake's rugged yet fragile nature and
hardscrabble characters and outpost communities define rural
northwestern Canada. Experience it for yourself in this first
collection of stories by one of the region's most acclaimed journalists.
“In the spirit of Charles Wilkins's Breakfast at the Hoito and Other
Adventures in the Boreal Heartland, [The Greatest Lake] is a valuable
addition to the literature connecting the culture and geography of our
region.” Conor Mihell is an adventure travel, lifestyle, and
environmental journalist. He writes for magazines and newspapers such as
Cottage Life
, the
Globe and Mail
,
Canoe & Kayak
, and
ON Nature
, and won a 2010 Northern Lights Award (1st place, independent
journalist-magazine) for travel-writing excellence. He lives in Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario.
