PHOTO BANNER : Morning mist on Walden Pond, Massachusetts, the most famous kettle in the world. Fancy lakeside establishment at lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, where large ragged kettles are the regional signature landform and where fishing is the most defining recreational identity . Marsh-rimmed and circular Lilypad Lake in Hubbard County, Minnesota invokes Thoreau's quote "A lake is Earth's eye." Various species of pine are (or were) dominant in the well-drained sand-gravel soils characteristic of kettles. The northernmost point of America's most famous river, the Mississippi River lies within my home town of Bemidji, Minnesota, about thirty miles north of the river's source at Lake Itasca.

Beyond Walden:

The Hidden History of America's Kettle Lakes and Ponds.

Welcome to the website for my new book, the second in a planned trilogy on Signature Landforms. This website will eventually support the book with color versions of its photos, maps, and scientific illustrations, and loads of Extra Materials, including historic maps, scientific illutrations, a gallery of photos, an errata list, a discussion of the literary precedents of Garrison Keillor's book Lake Wobegon Days, and an E-Appendix that will help you locate and interpret kettle lakes state by state.

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SPECIAL ! Check out my Summer Travel Blog: Walden to Wobegon: A Freshwater Journey from Maine to Montana.

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For a You-Tube interview about the book, link to Movie.

comments, link to Blurbs and(or) Reviews. (more recent is NPR's Here and Now)

For a description, link to Garamond Agency.

To learn the scope of content, link to the Ten Important Ideas .

To facilitate media interviews, I suggest Questions & Answers.

For a list of public events, link to Events, Talks, and Signings.

For a press release, link to Walker-Bloomsbury Press Release.