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"Those of us who live beside the great lakes accept their magnitude with scarcely a passing thought," Pierre Berton writes. "We have long grown used to them and are not awed by their size or terrified by their power."

Awe and terror are only two of the themes in Berton's narrative and Andre Gallant's brillant photographs. In this second collaboration - a companion volume to their best-selling WINTER - Gallant's camera explores the five inland seas in all their variety while Berton's lively prose ranges from the ice ages that created the lakes to his lyrical tribute to Point Pelee, the birder's paradise on Lake Erie.