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Circling the Wolf's Head is a series of eight loosely connected essays about the Lake Superior region that trace a clockwise route around the lake, beginning and ending in Duluth, Minnesota. While the essays circle the lake, the book is not intended to be a compendium of information about it, a comprehensive natural or cultural history of the lake and its environs, or even a travel guide to the area. Rather, it is simply the author's attempt to capture in words his personal experiences while traveling in the region over the course of several years beginning in the late 1990s. By skillfully blending accounts of his contemporary travels with historical anecdotes and descriptions of the landscape's primal power, Eaton evokes the spirit of this remarkable region.
About the author
Many years ago Robert Eaton earned a master's degree in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and a law degree from the University of New Mexico. He worked for more than thirty years as an attorney for the United States Department of the Interior in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Lakewood, Colorado; and Washington, DC. Now retired, he lives outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. He is also the author of Circling the Wolf's Head: Travels and Encounters around Lake Superior (2023). For more information, please visit robert-eaton.com.
