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Call of the North Wind: Voyages and Adventures on Lake Superior

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Marlin Bree has authored an outstanding book about sailing on Lake Superior. Call Of The North Wind: Voyages & Adventures On Lake Superior is the story of Bree's crisscrossing Lake Superior in his home-built 20-foot wood sailboat and a 35-foot catamaran. Call Of The North Wind weaves stories of adventure, travel and history along with reconstructions of unusual shipwrecks and doomed crews, voyaging the lake on a Viking ship, tracking a sunken vessel, watching another boat sink, facing storms, and meeting interesting people living alongside the lake.

Storms, shipwrecks, waterfront characters --- all on Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake. This is a fascinating story of a chilly frontier of water and weather. Sail magazine rated this sailor's previous book (In the Teeth of the Northeaster: A solo voyage on Lake Superior) as "...fascinating." I hope other readers will find it so, too!

Author Marlin Bree takes his sailboat "Persistence" on a Voyage along Lake Superior's south shore. Along the way, he relates his experiences and encounters with local inhabitants, sharing the history and lore of the lake. Each chapter includes a map tracing the author's progress from the Apostle Islands to Sault Ste. Marie, including a visit to Whitefish Point and the "graveyard of the Lakes" where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.

Reading this book was like taking my own vacation along the South Shore, and I greatly enjoyed it.