By Joel Thurtell
Here it is!
Wayne State University Press has sent us images of the cover they’ve designed for the book I co-authored with Patricia Beck about our June 2005 canoe trip up the Rouge River through Metro Detroit.
I think it’s pretty cool.
The cover photo is one Pat took from a helicopter a couple months after our five-day trek from Detroit’s Delray Park to the Nine Mile bridge near Beech in Southfield.
Pat’s photos and my account of the trip are to be published by Wayne State in March as a book, UP THE ROUGE! PADDLING DETROIT’S HIDDEN RIVER. There will be literally dozens of color photos by Pat of some amazing sights. You can’t really get to know this river unless you travel up or down the stream.
Even then, it’s not easy, as Pat and I can verify: 72 logjams and four dams in varying states of repair blocked our passage.
Don’t know the price yet.
We’re looking for page proofs in September. Then there will be a bit more work as we make final corrections. Once we’re done, it goes back to WSUP editors for final fine-tuning and then to the printer.
I have a bias, of course, but I think the cover looks terrific. Can’t wait to see the inside.
I’ll be posting more information as I get news about the book.
Drop me a line at joelthurtell(at)gmail.com
