Early French explorers named the dangerous shoal-studded passage between Lake Michgan and Green Bay "Porte des Morts", or Death's Door. Since then, hundreds of ships have dramatically come to grief along these rocky shores. Many fascinating archival, land, aerial and underwater photos bring to life these shipwreck tales, the legend of the Poverty I more...
Rediscover Wisconsin History from the very beginning. A short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multi-faceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's remarkable past, showing how the sta more...
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 650 bird species plu more...
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plu more...
David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations—more than 6,600 in all—and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience.
The Sibley Guide's innovative design makes it enti
Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field, is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a huge amount of information about tree identification - more than has ever been collected in a single book - into a logical, accessible, easy-to-use format. more...
Wisconsin is a state of incredible diversity, tansition, accomplishment and modesty. We are more than great beer, brats, cheeseheads and polkas.
You can stay close to home and think your in another country, find stunning and unusual get-aways on a tank full of gas, feel among kindred spirits in the most remote areas, eat the finest of foods in sm
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history - and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic (or so they said) sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls a more...
Spiders of the North Woods introduces you to more than 60 fascinating northern spiders. Larry’s easy-to-follow format makes field identification simple and fun. Learn these fun facts and more:
* The Fisher Spider (whose
legspan can be as wide as
a human hand) dives to
catch aquatic critters.
* The Spitting