The Bruce Beckons: The Story of Lake Huron's Great Peninsula - The Road to Tobermory, Folklore of the Fishing Islands, In the Day of the Wild Pigeon, John Muir Was Here, The Serpent in the Garden, The Mill at Ghost Lake, And the Trees Trooped Out, +++

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover/trade, (xviii) 245 pages, with map and illustrations including b & w frontis, Very Good Plus condition with name on ffep. "Lovers of folklore, mystery, and tales of shipwreck will find ample material here to whet their imagination. Dr. Fox tells thrilling, true stories of shipwrecks in this region of Lake Huron, and unveils the folklore and mystery of the Fishing Islands. He tells too of the natural wonders and resources of The Bruce - the strange "tides" of the Great Lakes, the armies of wild pigeons that invaded the Peninsula from primeval times to the 1870's and then vanished, the marvellous fisheries found off the Fishing Islands by the white man in the 1820's, the serpents in the Eden - the Massasauga rattlers - and the weird "flowerpot" rock formations. He devotes a special section to the famous plants of the Peninsula which were botanized by John Muir, the great American protector of the Yosemite Valley and Yellowstone Park." Contents include: Intro / The Road to Tobermory / A Garden Northward / An Unknown Land / Perils of a Freshwater Sea / The Eighties Take Their Toll / West Side, East Side / Folklore of the Fishing Islands / The Tides o' Bruce / In the Day of the Wild Pigeon / The Great Draughts of Fishes / The Serpent in the Garden / John Muir Was Here / The Trail of the Alaska Orchid / "The Herb Called Hart's Tongue" / Orchid and Flowerpot / And the Trees Trooped Out / The Mill at Ghost Lake / The Mill at Stokes Bay / Piloting on the New Frontier / Lilacs and Log Cabins / When Sir John A. Put His Foot Down / index. . Reprint from Revised & Enlarged Edition . Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Drawings by Clare Bice & Vincent Elliott, Full page map by Archie Carnahan. 8vo.