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Michigan Notable Author-Jerry Dennis

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Please welcome Jerry Dennis, local author of nature, science and the outdoors.  His newest book, Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons was chosen as a 2022 Michigan Notable Book.  This collection of essays captures a lifelong journey to better know Northern Michigan by exploring it in every season, in every kind of weather, on foot, on bicycle, in canoes and cars. The essays are more than an homage to a particular region, its people, and its natural wonders. They are a reflection on the Up North that can only be experienced through your feet and fingertips, through your ears, mouth, and nose-the Up North that makes its way into your bones as surely as sand makes its way into wood grain. 

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Jerry Dennis is an award-winning nature writer. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, National Geographic Traveler, and Gray’s Sporting Journal, among other periodicals. He has written over a dozen books, including The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great LakesThe Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas; and Canoeing Michigan Rivers: A Comprehensive Guide to 45 Rivers, now in its 3rd edition. 

Check out all of the 2022 Michigan Notable Book Authors at their events this spring and summer!

Artwork by Glenn Wolff

Image:  University of Michigan Press

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