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The Fish House Book: Life on Ice in the Northland

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I got this product for my husband, who spends his winter in an ice shack, fishing sun up to sun down! He loved the photographs of the different ice shacks and the information about different ice fishing events. Also a good coffee table book- all of his friends have spent a lot of time looking at the crafty ice shacks. A good buy!

Compiled with occasional captions by portrait and commercial photographer Kathryn Nordstrom, "The Fish House Book: Life On The Ice In The Northland" provides a visually impressive photographic survey of fish houses and the ice fishing culture that created them. Nordstrom photographically documents the people, the ice fishing culture, and the fish houses (interior and exterior) with more than two hundred color images. From the Aitkin Fish House Parade, to the Brainered Extravaganza, to the Walker Eelpout Festival, to camping overnight on Lake of the Woods, to a wedding, "The Fish House Book" is a fascinating and informative glimpse into a genuine upper midwest American subculture. Enhanced with an essay by Arnold Alanen (Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison), "The Fish House Book" is very highly recommended for academic and community library collections, and for non-specialist general readers with an interest in ice fishing houses and the culture that supports them.