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The Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher

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An excellent book giving an insight of how one person experienced the isolated life of Isle Royale during one winter of 1932-33. This is a fast-reading book which is not easy to set down. Anyone who has visited the beautiful island of Isle Royale National Park should find this diary interesting and captivating. Book's epilogue and editorial notes by author's son add special insight.

Fascinating read. Hard to set down. The journaling of one rugged, winter in the isolation of a stormy physical and severely limited social environment extracting their toll on a single mother and child, far from the familiarity of home and family during the depression of the early twentieth century.

This was an excellant book on how harsh a winter could be on an isolated island in lake Superior. An easy book to read and, very interesting about life in general. A must read book.

I enjoyed this written journal by a schoolteacher who spent the winter isolated on the island of Isle Royale, because it is the history of my mother and her family. They were commercial fisherman and spent the winters on Isle Royale, with only a ham radio for communication. It gives a very true picture of the hardships they endured, the amusements they created to combat boredom, and the personalities of the Johnson family.