Explore Wisconsin Rivers (Trails Books Guide) [Paperback]

Doris Green (Author), Michael H. Knight (Author)

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Series: Trails Books Guide | Publication Date: April 2008

From the Mississippi to the Menomonee, readers will explore the rich history, geography and people of Wisconsin as they relate to its rivers, while discovering many ways to enjoy both the water and its beautiful shoreline.

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About the Author

Doris Green is a parttime communications specialist at the School of Human Ecology, University of WisconsinMadison and writes, edits and publishes a variety of other materials including the magazine Wisconsin Community Banking News. She has written several books, including two previous Trails Books, Wisconsin Underground: A Guide to Caves, Mines, and Tunnels in and Around the Badger State and Minnesota Underground and the Best of the Black Hills: A Guide to Mines, Sinks, Caves, and Disappearing Streams. She holds a master's degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of WisconsinMadison.

She and her husband, Michael Knight, live with Rumpus, a black lab, and Houdini, an occasionally blackhearted cat, in a log house near the Lone Rock bridge over the Wisconsin River.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Trails Books (April 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934553123
• ISBN-13: 978-1934553121
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,055,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Wisconsin's river systems have been critical to the state's developmental history and continue to provide irreplaceable economic and recreational resources fundamentally necessary to insure the prosperity of the Badger State. Ranging from minor tributaries to major thoroughfares, Wisconsin's reviewers were the produce of glaciation and geologic conditions that helped to shape the landscape as we know it today. They served as transport Native American systems that were readily adopted and exploited by European settlers. They served as energy, food, commerce, and recreational sources and today offer memorable recreation experiences and essential ecological supports. In "Wisconsin Underground" Wisconsin author and academician Doris Green explored Wisconsin's caves and cave systems. Now in "Explore Wisconsin Rivers" she turns her expert attention to the beauty and history of Wisconsin's rivers and rivers systems in terms of both their history and their beauty. Personally traveling hundreds of miles of Badger State rivers, exploring their natural and cultural aspects, Doris Green (with the assistance of Michael H. Knight) has produced an informed and informative travel guide perfect for planning a recreational itinerary for enjoying what Wisconsin rivers have to offer. The format is the grouping of rivers according to which body of water they ultimately pour into. Section one offers four rivers emptying into Lake Superior; Section two showcases six rivers emptying into Lake Michigan; Section tree describes nine rivers running to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. Enhanced with occasional black-and-white photography, "Explore Wisconsin Rivers" is enthusiastically recommended as an essential guide for anyone interested in Wisconsin's river systems and is a core addition to both academic and community library Wisconsin Studies & History reference collections.