Books About the Upper Peninsula

Captain and Harry is a children's book set at the Seul Choix Lighthouse in Gulliver MI including historical facts and actual documented spirit sightings in and around the Lighthouse. Captain Joseph Townshend, lighthouse keeper from 1901-1910, said to be the spirit haunting the lighthouse joins Harry, a very fat field mouse, for mysterious adventures. Books available online or at the Gift Shop at Seul Choix Point Lighthouse.

NEW: A Guide to Michigan's Keweenaw Copper District by Lawrence J. Molloy. This updated version of Copper Country Road Trips is filled with Photographs, Maps, and Tours of the Keweenaw . . . Past and Present. Enjoy Keweenaw History From The Comfort Of Your Car. Guide book for tours of mainly mining locations, sites and ruins plus other historical sites. Includes maps, pictures, historical information and precise directions. Published and printed by Great Lakes GeoScience, Hubbell, Michigan. Available at Red Metal Minerals at Gitche Gumee Landing, 202 Ontonagon St. Ontonagon, MI 49953 or by mail order. $29.00 Price includes shipping. Phone: 906-884-6618 or E-mail: redmetal@charter.net

Ghosts: "A Glostly Road Tour of Michigan's Upper Peninsula". True Stories of Ghostly Hauntings in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan" by Jan Langley. Tour these interesting haunted places in the comfort of your chair or visit them when you are in the Upper Peninsula.

Michigan's Upper Peninsula Spirit of Place by Nature and Wildlife Photographer Steve Brimm is a delightful coffee table book presenting over 100 photographs of nature, wildlife, and landscapes photographed in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A wonderful collection of photographs for those who love the Upper Peninsula. Also available is a box of 10 different note cards, perfect for any occasion. Both can be purchased by phone or mail order. Steve's award winning photography is published regularly in regional and national magazines and calendars, and he recently won the 2005 Nature's Best Photo Contest in the Plant Life Category. Phone: 906-289-4234 (summer) and 910-620-7569 (winter).

North Country Publishing, 355 Heidtman Road, Dept. EN, Skandia, MI 49885. Phone 1-866-942-7898. Award winning books about the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Books can be purchased by phone, mail order, or using our online shopping cart.
Books published include:

• New: You STILL Wouldn't Like it Here - The Sequel
• You Wouldn't Like it Here - A Guide to the Real Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Going Back to Central - On the Road in Search of the Past in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
• The Superior Peninsula - Seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Lumberjack - Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Sharing the Journey - Lessons from my Students and Clients with Tangled Tongues.

Red Metal Minerals offers books on the history and geology of copper mining. Located at U.P. Candle Company at Gitche Gumee Landing, at the north end of River Street in Ontonagon MI. 202 Ontonagon St. Ontonagon, MI 49953. Phone: 906-884-6618. Mail order. E-mail: redmetal@charter.net All books are plus shipping charges

• "Copper Country Road Trips" by Larry Malloy. Enjoy Keweenaw History form the comfort of your car. Price: $18.00
• "Keweenaw Copper: Geology and History" by Theodore J. Bornhorst & Larry D. Lankton Price: $12.00
• "Self-guided Geological Field Trip to the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan," by Theodore J. Bornhorst & William I. Rose. Price: $30.00
• "A Visitor's Guide to the Historic Quincy Mine" by Lawrence J. Malloy. Price $10.00

So Cold a Sky, Upper Michigan Weather Stories by Karl Bohnak, Chief Meteorologist for WLUC TV-6, Marquette, MI. Enjoy these short stories, some historic and others modern weather events, that have taken place in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. "So Cold a Sky" contains stories about the early settlers and the hardships they faced making a home in this rugged land along with true tales of Upper Michigan's extreme weather with over 200 photographs and about 100 maps in this almost 400 page book. "So Cold a Sky" is a 2007 Michigan Notable Book. Cold Sky Publishing, P.O. Box 228, Negaunee, MI 49866. Phone: (906)-475-7942

Coming in October 2008: "Michigan's Upper Peninsula Almanac", by Karl Bohnak and Ron Jolly

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