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Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town by Ronald J. Stephens
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $58.67In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country's foremost vacation... -
Assassination of a Michigan King: The Life of James Jesse Strang by Roger Van Noord 9780472084548
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $43.32A skeptical follower of James Jesse Strang once wrote: "No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve a temporal king and a republican government at the same time. The thing is preposterous." And... -
M Is for Michigan Football: Celebrating the Tradition of Michigan Football by Greg Nelson 9780472033874
RRP: $25.10Booksplease Price: $19.70M Is for Michigan Football explores 26 of the many traditions and highlights of the University of Michigan football program, the winningest in all of college football. The book features eye-popping... -
Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans by Charles E. Cleland
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $35.30A comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes regionBook InformationISBN 9780472064472Author Charles E. ClelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 360 -
Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance During the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900 by Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. 9780472096909
Booksplease Price: $143.56During the four decades following the War of 1812, Great Lakes Indians were forced to surrender most of their ancestral homelands and begin refashioning their lives on reservations. The challenges... -
Deckhand: Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes by Nelson Mickey Haydamacker 9780472033256
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $32.57Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of... -
Field Manual of Michigan Flora by Anton A. Reznicek 9780472118113
Booksplease Price: $82.89Field Manual of Michigan Flora is the most up-to-date guide available for all seed plants growing wild in Michigan. Significantly expanding and updating the three-volume Michigan Flora, the book... -
Paralyzing Summer: The True Story of the Ann Arbor V.A. Hospital Poisonings and Deaths by Zibby Oneal 9780472073214
Booksplease Price: $129.07In the summer of 1975, an alarming number of patients at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital began experiencing mysterious respiratory failures that left ten dead and over thirty more... -
Faith in Paper: The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties by Charles E. Cleland 9780472035939
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $66.51Faith in Paper is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The book focuses on the treaties and legal cases that... -
Sweetwater, Storms, and Spirits: Stories of the Great Lakes by Victoria Brehm 9780472081516
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $34.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472081516Author Victoria BrehmFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
A Guide to Michigan's Endangered Wildlife by David C. Evers
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $28.71Endowed with an abundance of natural resources, Michigan is host to diverse wildlife. Wolves, lynx, eagles, loons, butterflies, and sturgeon make Michigan their home. Yet, through widespread logging,... -
Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service by Patricia Majher 9780472051434
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $30.72""A great read about some great ladies, Pat Majher's Ladies of the Lights pays long overdue homage to an overlooked part of Great Lakes maritime history in which a select group of stalwart women beat... -
How to Find Morels: Even as Others are Coming Back Empty-handed by Milan Pelouch 9780472032747
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.00Each spring in the United States, old-timers and new converts to morel hunting appear in the woods in search of the elusive but distinctive morel, a mushroom well known and loved in Michigan and... -
Tempests into Rainbows: Managing Turbulence by Robben W. Fleming 9780472106745
Booksplease Price: $96.37Robben W. Fleming was President of the University of Michigan during the turmoil of the Vietnam era. He brought a clear and effective philosophy to the challenges he faced as manager and leader in a... -
The Angler's Guide to Twelve Classic Trout Streams in Michigan by Jim DuFresne 9780472033683
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.15"Since it first appeared in 1985, Hendrickson's book has introduced legions of fly fishers to the state's most-treasured rivers. In this newest edition, author Jim DuFresne has made a good book... -
The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry by Don Faber 9780472050543
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $43.32"An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber expertly narrates the history of a dispute conducted by... -
Lake Country: A Series of Journeys by Kathleen Stocking 9780472065165
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $34.84One writer's quest to locate herself within the wet, wild, and diversely human cultural heritage that has shaped herBook InformationISBN 9780472065165Author Kathleen StockingFormat Paperback -
The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan: A Century of Science and Nature at the University of Michigan Biological Station by 9780472050758
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $40.99Northern Michigan is undergoing unprecedented changes in land use, climate, resource extraction, and species distributions. For the last hundred years, the University of Michigan Biological Station... -
Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships by Fred Neuschel 9780472033669
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.99Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships brings the maritime heritage of the Great Lakes to life, using the tragic story of the schooner Rouse Simmons as a porthole into the robust but often... -
Letters from the Leelanau: Essays of People and Place by Kathleen Stocking 9780472064458
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $34.84Stocking writes about the people and places she knows so intimatelyBook InformationISBN 9780472064458Author Kathleen StockingFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint -
Cold Running River by David Nathan Cassuto 9780472082384
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $50.69At a mere glance, Cold Running River has obvious regional and environmental appeal, but it goes far beyond those interests. Besides the fact that the Pere Marquette is a well-known, National Scenic... -
Michigan: A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People by Roger L. Rosentreter
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.32The history of Michigan is a fascinating story of breathtaking geography enriched by an abundant water supply, of bold fur traders and missionaries who developed settlements that grew into major... -
The Double-Crested Cormorant: Symbol of Ecological Conflict by Dennis Wild 9780472117635
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $41.69This is the story of the survival, recovery, astonishing success, and controversial status of the double-crested cormorant. After surviving near extinction driven by DDT and other contaminants from... -
Everyday Leadership: Getting Results in Business, Politics, and Life by Daniel Granholm Mulhern 9780472069729
Booksplease Price: $48.68"A book that truly speaks to everyone. . . . Always practical, often inspiring, this is more a reference book than a self-improvement text, and a great read for any would-be leader." -Roger Penske,... -
Henry Ford and Grass-roots America by Reynold M. Wik 9780472061938
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $33.50A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920sReviews"This is both a biography of Henry Ford, American folk hero, and a study of the sociohistorical impact of the often idiosyncratic ideas and... -
Borne of the Wind: Michigan Sand Dunes by Dennis Albert 9780472031726
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.25Sand dunes are among the most rugged and beautiful natural wonders of Michigan's shorelines. These sandy edifices-at once substantial and ephemeral-are the most extensive freshwater dunes in the... -
Monty Nagler's Michigan by Monty Nagler 9780472114207
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $56.45"Viewing Monte Nagler's photography is like stepping into a scene that is at once familiar and surreal. He distills vistas into their core components, arranges the forms on his ground glass and... -
Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan by Peter Morris 9780472068265
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $38.49Baseball seems tailor-made for the historian, yet even today, after almost a century and a half of organized play, baseball's origins remain unclear. Most accounts focus on Eastern teams and the... -
Michigan's Town and Country Inns by Susan Newhof 9780472035175
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $33.12The fifth edition of Michigan's Town & Country Inns is a guide to more than 50 inns, bed-and-breakfast homes, and historic lodgings in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan.Choose from... -
Secret Witness: The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan by Blaine Pardoe 9780472035021
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $38.51Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola... -
The Cedarville Conspiracy: Indicting U.S. Steel by L. Stephen Cox 9780472030637
Booksplease Price: $29.34On the morning of May 7, 1965, the American freighter Cedarville collided with the Norwegian vessel Topdalsfjord in heavy fog in the Straits of Mackinac. Ultimately, ten crew members of the... -
Insects of the Great Lakes Region by Gary A. Dunn 9780472065158
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $35.47The insects are the world's most amazing animals and comprise over eighty-five percent of the known animal species. Insects of the Great Lakes Region is the first comprehensive guide to document the... -
The Glass City: Toledo and The Industry That Built It by Barbara L. Floyd 9780472119455
Booksplease Price: $107.63The headline, "Where Glass is King," emblazoned Toledo newspapers in early 1888, before factories in the Ohio city had even produced their first piece of glass. After years of struggling to find an... -
Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region by Stephen E. Kesler 9780472073801
Booksplease Price: $141.23The geologic story of the Great Lakes region is one of the most remarkable of any place on Earth. Great Lakes Rocks takes readers on this fascinating journey through geologic history, beginning with... -
The Lone Wolverine: Tracking Michigan's Most Elusive Animal by Elizabeth Philips Shaw 9780472034871
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $38.51It began in late winter of 2004. Almost 100 years had passed since the last spotting of a wild wolverine in Michigan when coyote hunters caught a glimpse of one of the animals in a frozen farm field... -
The Vernor's Story: From Gnomes to Now by Lawrence L. Rouch
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.36Amply illustrated, The Vernor's Story -- From Gnomes to Now captures the spirit and genius of the people who transformed Vernors into an iconic American soft drink that has spanned two centuries of... -
The Forests of Michigan by Donald I. Dickmann
Booksplease Price: $113.30Completely revised and updated, this new edition of The Forests of Michigan takes a comprehensive look at the natural history, ecology, management, economic importance, and use of the rich and varied... -
Butterflies of the Great Lakes Region by Matthew M. Douglas 9780472098842
Booksplease Price: $163.53The Butterflies of the Great Lakes is the first of its kind to present an overall picture of the biology of butterflies inhabiting the Great Lakes region. The straightforward approach and clear... -
Backpacking in Michigan by Jim DuFresne 9780472032686
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $34.84With 65 photographs and 77 detailed maps, this indispensable guide to the state's hiking trails gives beginners to advanced hikers all the information they need to plan their next Michigan overnight... -
A History of Ann Arbor by Jonathan Marwil 9780472064632
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $36.67"I found it filled with many interesting things . . . ."---Arthur Miller"For those of us who have admiration and affection for the university and the city of Ann Arbor, it is fascinating reading...