Book: Isle Royale (new publication)
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:07 pm
I was playing with my new gadget and, out of sheer curiosity, did a search in the Kindle app for "Isle Royale." I was hoping for MikeT's book, but instead found the following:
Isle Royale: A novel (http://www.amazon.com/Isle-Royale-ebook ... 154&sr=1-1)
Apparently it's a newer publication, just released in the last month (December 12, 2010). It's by a gentleman who lives on Minnesota's north shore, not far from me, named John Hamilton. You can read about him here: http://johnchamilton.com/about/
I downloaded a sample and started reading. It's interesting, at the very least, but I haven't got enough read yet to really get a feel for the quality of writing. From what I've gathered and synopsized, it's about the real Isle Royale on the real Lake Superior. There's still Rock Harbor and Windigo, even Mott Island (with a very well woven-in subplot about how Mott Island really got it's name, and how that relates to a character in the book). But one deviation: it's about a light house keeper & his family at a light house on Wolf Point (aptly named the "Wolf Point Lighthouse). From what I can tell, the best guess is that Wolf Point equals the Rock Harbor light, but I'm uncertain (hey, I only got to read a few pages).
I'm tempted to buy the digital edition (making it the first "e-Book" I've ever bought), but I'm curious if anyone else has read it yet. Feedback?
Isle Royale: A novel (http://www.amazon.com/Isle-Royale-ebook ... 154&sr=1-1)
Apparently it's a newer publication, just released in the last month (December 12, 2010). It's by a gentleman who lives on Minnesota's north shore, not far from me, named John Hamilton. You can read about him here: http://johnchamilton.com/about/
I downloaded a sample and started reading. It's interesting, at the very least, but I haven't got enough read yet to really get a feel for the quality of writing. From what I've gathered and synopsized, it's about the real Isle Royale on the real Lake Superior. There's still Rock Harbor and Windigo, even Mott Island (with a very well woven-in subplot about how Mott Island really got it's name, and how that relates to a character in the book). But one deviation: it's about a light house keeper & his family at a light house on Wolf Point (aptly named the "Wolf Point Lighthouse). From what I can tell, the best guess is that Wolf Point equals the Rock Harbor light, but I'm uncertain (hey, I only got to read a few pages).
I'm tempted to buy the digital edition (making it the first "e-Book" I've ever bought), but I'm curious if anyone else has read it yet. Feedback?
But aside from the location change, everything is as historically accurate as I could make it (the story takes place in the 1920s).