The Third Coast

A full-color photographic journey around the Great Lakes Locals affectionately call the Great Lakes the third coastthough at 4,500 miles, this beloved freshwater shoreline is the nations longest, covering more distance than the countrys Atlantic and Pacific coasts combined. Divided into four galleries by lake and season, David Zuricks award-winning photographs spotlight the distinct personality of each coastline and the people who call its shores home. We visit windswept Lake Superior in winter, Lake Michigan bursting into spring, Lakes Erie and Ontario under the summer sun, and Lake Huron in the changing palette of autumn, with an additional gallery devoted to the straits and rivers that connect them. An evocative foreword from award-winning nature writer Jerry Dennis sets the stage for this sweeping visual tour. In Zuricks photographs, lifelong lovers of the Great Lakes will find the familiar shorelines of coastal hometowns, summer refuges, and secret fishing spotsas well as images that reawaken us to the majesty and mystery of North Americas freshwater seas.