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Well-Favored Passage A Guide to Lake Huron's North Channel 1983

Well-Favored Passage: A Guide to Lake Huron's North Channel by Marjorie Cahn Brazer is a 1983 revised hardcover guide published by Peach Mountain Press, Ltd. in Charlevoix, Michigan.

This is a practical Lake Huron and North Channel guide packed with information for boaters, travelers, and Great Lakes readers. The book covers waterways, anchorages, settlements, islands, local history, charts, accommodations, references, and boating information.

It includes map endpapers, detailed chart illustrations, tables, appendices, and an index, so there is a surprising amount of useful material inside this 161 page book.

Details

  • Item: Vintage regional boating and travel guide
  • Title: Well-Favored Passage: A Guide to Lake Huron's North Channel
  • Author: Marjorie Cahn Brazer
  • Illustrator: Cover illustration by Richard Edwards. Other illustration credits not confirmed from photos
  • Publisher: Peach Mountain Press, Ltd., Charlevoix, Michigan
  • Publication Year: 1983 second printing
  • Edition and Printing: Revised Edition, second printing, 1983. This is a later printing, not a first printing
  • Format and Binding: Hardcover with illustrated boards
  • Dust Jacket: None present
  • Genre: Great Lakes travel, boating, regional history, and reference
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0-931850-02-9
  • Dimensions: Approximately 9 x 6 x 1 inches

Condition Grade: Good

Positives

  • Graded Good: This copy is complete and readable, with noticeable age and use but plenty of practical life left in it.
  • All pages are easy to read. The binding remains together, and the maps, charts, references, and printed illustrations shown are clear.
  • The illustrated hardcover still presents well on the shelf, and the spine lettering remains easy to read.

Issues / Wear

  • Pages and page edges show yellowing, with scattered yellow spotting on pages throughout. The spotting is noticeable but does not interfere with reading.
  • The boards show rubbing and edge wear. There is a small old cat sticker and faint marks inside the book, and the endpaper map has a small red circled marking.

With its North Channel charts, anchorages, and map endpapers, this 1983 revised guide belongs on a Great Lakes boating shelf. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.

  • Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
  • Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
  • Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
  • Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.

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