Isle Royale Books, Alphabetical by Title
The Belle Isle Journals
Written by Isle Royale visitors
Editing and Photography by Carl Ter Haar
 $10.95
In 2002, Dave Herbster, the Belle Isle volunteer campground host, put
spiral bound notebooks in all the campground shelters with the following message:
"Welcome to Belle Isle Campgound! We hope your stay here is an enjoyable one.
Please use this notebook to express your thouhgts, feelings, and concerns about
Belle Isle and in general, your stay on Isle Royale. We appreciate you writing
in this notebook, and not on the walls of the shelter. At the end of the season,
your comments will be used to
improve your next visit to Isle Royale. Thank you. Your Campground Host." This
book contains some of those journal entries made by Isle Royale visitors. Beautiful
color photos illustrating scenic Isle Royale and its surrounding Lake Superior
waters are provided by the editor, Carl Ter Haar. 21 pages.
Borealis: An Isle Royale Potpourri
Edited by Harmon
$9.95
A collection of stories of the people who helped to shape the history and legends
of Isle Royale, from Siskiwit Bay logger Jim Wynne and reporter and National
park promoter Ben East, to Charlie and Angelique Mott who were
left to fend for themselves over a long winter. Seven stories. Paper. 100 pages.
Diaries of an Isle Royale Fisherman
by Elling Seglem
$12.95
Reproductions of the journals and correspondence of Elling Seglem who fished from Isle Royale's Fisherman's Home
between 1920 and 1932. A photographer during the winter, Seglem was extremely creative in designing and illustrating
newspaper-format letters home to his family in Chicago. Historic photos and cartoons. 185 pages.
Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher
by Dorothy Simonson
$12.95
In this private journal Dorothy Simonson tells of the joys and hardships of a winter spent on Isle Royale. She
accounts with honesty and humor the challenges she faced during her eight months as the school teacher for a
fisherman's family in 1932-33. Paper. 138 pages.
Discover Isle Royale National Park
by Vashon
$5.95
A book of learning activities for grade-school age children. Includes games,
puzzles, crosswords, and experiments all dealing specifically with Isle
Royale.
A Far Green Country
by Greg Romaneck
$12.95
Part memoir, and part instructional manual, this book is full of great hiking stories and tips. The author, who has hiked over 1,000 miles on Isle Royale
trails, shares the many lessons he has learned and offers lots of helpful suggestions for the Isle Royale adventurer. 175 pages, illustrations by Kyle Romaneck.
Fishes of Isle Royale
by K.F. Lagler & C.R. Goldman
$3.95
This complete fishing guide includes information on the five fish habitats
on Isle Royale, a full description of all major species with illustrations,
keys to fish identification, and an annotated list of fishes. Charts, maps.
58 pages.
A Good Boat Speaks for Itself: Isle Royale Fishermen and Their Boats
by Tim Cochrane and Hawk Tolson
$19.95
Isle Royale was home to a vibrant fishing community from its settlement during the 1880s by Norwegian and Swedish
immigrants until the collapse of Lake Superior commercial fishing in the 1950s. Full of historical photographs
and diagrams of now derelict watercraft, A Good Boat Speaks for Itself tells the history of this community
through its wooden boats and the stories of those who built and used them. 208 pages.
Images of America: Isle Royale
by Jessica Poirier and Richard Taylor
$19.99
New book of historic Isle Royale photographs from Arcadia Publications Images
of America series. 128 pages.
Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
by Peter Oikarinen
$16.95
Back in print! The history of a working fishing
community comes alive in this collection of stories from the people who made
a life on Isle Royale. Candid photographs illuminate the dramatic and sometimes
life-and-death experiences of unique
individuals who chose to live in this lovely, isolated setting. Paperback;
172 pages.
Island Life: An Isle Royale Nature Guide
by Ted Gostomski and Janet Marr
$19.95
A complete Isle Royale nature guide that describes all
the common flora and fauna of the island in a full color, compact book. Perfect for your backpack or bookshelf. 168 pages.
The Island Within Us: Isle Royale Artists in Residence 1991-1998
Edited by Robert Root and Jill Burkland
Hardcover $29.95
Softcover $14.95
The work of 34 Isle Royale Artists in Residence collected and presented for the first time in a beautiful coffee
table book. These paintings, drawings, photographs, poems, essays, and musical compositions reflect each artist's
attempts to deal directly with solitude, simplicity, and the wild beauty of Isle Royale and Lake Superior. In their
accompanying essays, the artists tell the stories of their residencies and reflect on how their experiences have
re-shaped them and their art. This exquisite oversize book includes 65 beautiful full color reproductions.
Introduction by Robert Root. Winner of a 2002 National Park Service Excellence in Interpretive Media award.
120 pages.
Isle Royale:
A Photographic History
by Thomas & Kendra Gale
$29.95
Finally back in print. An album that vivdly tells the island's history and the stories of the
people who worked and played here. 150 photos, taken from 1868 to 1951. Softcover. 149 pages.
Isle Royale National Park Coloring Book
by Jaroski and Lindsay
$2.95
This book of drawings of Isle Royale animals, places, and activities to
color also includes educational explanations for young children.
Jordyn Backpacks Isle Royale National Park
by Nelda Liebig
$11.95
A true-life story of a girl's backpacking trip with her grandmother on Isle Royale. A good story with lots of practical advice and many color pictures. Softcover. 40 pages.
Lake Superior: The Ultimate Guide to the Region, Second Edition
Bob Berg, Konnie Lemay, Editors
$19.95
An insider's guide to the best attactions, places, and lakeshores you will want to see. 294 pages, color photos and maps.
Minong - The Good Place: Ojibwe and Isle Royale
by Timothy Cochrane
$24.95
"At last, an accurate account of the North
Shore Ojibwe's relationship with Isle Royale, or Minong - the good place.
We now have a clear view of the historic Ojibwe use of Isle Royale - a subject
that has been ignored, forgotten, and corrupted for far too long. Cochrane
does an excellent
job of going to the source and finding out about Ojibwe history from the
relatives and descendents of the groups who were actually involved and are
still connected to the island today." - Liz Valencia, Historian, Isle Royale
National Park. Softcover, 285 pages.
Naked in the Stream: Isle Royale Stories
by Vic Foerster
$19.95
After thirty years of visits to Isle Royale National Park, Foerster
records his experience and wonderment in this narrative. Funny and
poignant, riveting and heart-thumping, Foerster describes his first
Isle Royale hike with humor and humility. Beautifully illustrated by
former Isle Royale Artist-in-Residence, Joyce Koskenmaki, this
wonderfully crafted book takes an intimate look into what it means
to find and revere wilderness. Paper, 288 pages.
Once Upon An Isle
by Howard Sivertson
$20.95
A book of richly detailed paintings illustrating Howard Sivertson's boyhood on
Isle Royale. Autobiographical tales recall the droll humor and picturesque life
of Isle Royale's commercial fishing families. Hardcover. 112 pages.
The
Soldiers of Poverty
by Mary J. Schueller
$19.95
This story begins in Virden, IL and follows the factual events of the author's father, Mike Kerkes, before joining the Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC). The narrative continues with Mike's everyday camp experiences, his friendships and his work. A
desperate cry for help from the U.S. Forest Service on Isle Royale during the drought of 1936 sent Company
D-692 to help contain the inferno that threatened the entire island from destruction.
Conditions on the island soon forced ordinary men into circumstances in which heroes find themselves. Paper, 328 pages.
Summers in Ishpeming Fire Tower, Isle Royale
by Russell Tabbert
$12.95
Tabbert's memoir of summers 1965-1967 spent as a fire lookout
at Isle Royale National Park. Tabbert and his wife, both graduate
students,
were joined in their tiny lookout home the third summer by their
daughter. 64 pages, color photos.
A Superior Death
by Nevada Barr
$6.99
A self-avowed "desert rat", park ranger Anna Pigeon finds herself
out of her element when she is reassigned to Isle Royale National
Park on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Below the frigid waters
lies the Kamloops, a sunken
1927 ship - the final resting place of its five victims. But when
divers surface with a tale of seeing a sixth body, Anna must break
the Great Lake's grip on its icy secrets. Paper, 310 pages.
Superior Wilderness: Isle Royale National Park
by Napier Shelton
$16.95
A natural history of Isle Royale for the non-scientist. This very readable
book reveals the unfolding story of this unique island ecosystem,
emphasizing the delicate relationship between its plants, animals, climate,
and geology. Beautiful color photographs throughout. Paper, 176 pages.
A View From the Wolf's Eye
by Carolyn C. Peterson
$12.95
From a rustic cabin, over 37 summers, Carolyn Peterson emerges as a woman equally competent to skin a dead moose and bake a rhubarb pie,
to carry a heavy pack behind her researcher husband and to wash diapers in a metal tub over an open fire. Her memoir is instructive, uplifting and inspiring. Paper, 102 pages.
Winter Study
by Nevada Barr
$24.95 Hardcover
$9.99 Paperback
Written on Isle Royale during Winter Study 2007. This is Barr's 14th in a series of National Park mysteries and her second book on Isle Royale.
It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves,
as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have their own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. Soon after
Anna's arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to act in peculiar ways. Alone on an island without electricity or running water, with temperatures hovering around zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for the
wolves, but also for her own survival. Fiction; hardcover, 370 pages.
The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance
by Rolf Peterson
$29.95
This book is author and wildlife biologist Rolf Peterson's fascinating firsthand account
of the relationship that exists between the wolf and the moose on the island. Illustrated with over 100
photographs, this book reveals the true nature of the mysterious and little-understood wolf. Paper, 192 pages.
Wolf Tracks & Moose
Scat, A Visit to Isle Royale
by Jean Mannesto
$5.95
This children's book introduces early elementary age students to Isle Royale and to the concept of predators and
prey. A simple text and beautiful watercolors and color photographs describe the island's weather and geology
and its animal and plant inhabitants. A perfect book for both children who have not visited Isle Royale and those
who have. Grades 1 to 4.
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