Passionate about Lake Superior? So is Conor

NEWS RELEASE

JOE'S SPORTS
SPORTS AND SURPLUS

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The Sault’s best kept secret, Conor Mihell, has published a new book, The Greatest Lake: Stories from Lake Superior’s North Shore

Conor is an award-winning freelance writer based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

He specializes in environmental and outdoor adventure.

When Conor isn’t paddling, guiding, teaching paddling, or adventuring throughout Northern Ontario - his first passion - he writes about environmental issues and concerns that affect the northern landscape - his second passion.

He has been published widely in Explore, Superior Outdoors, Federation of Ontario Naturalist (Seasons), Canoe and Kayak, Canadian Geographic among many others.

Check out his portfolio online here

On December 7 from 4 to 7 p.m., come on down to Joe’s Sports and Surplus.

Conor will be in the store signing and talking about his new book along with his many adventures in Northern Ontario.

In his book, Conor offers a compelling image of Lake Superior’s Canadian shore through colourful personality sketches, adventure stories, and environmental accounts.

Admire the kitschy décor of the lighthouse cottage of Maureen Robertson, a 76-year-old who spends six months of the year alone on a remote island; enter the debate over a controversial aggregate quarry in Wawa, Ontario; and lean how the author’s love affair with the world’s largest freshwater lake began on quests for a near-mystical, glacier-dropped monolith.

Mihell’s stories build on Lake Superior’s rich and varied history and support its critical place in Canadian culture.

Since the beginning, Lake Superior has been revered for its God-like qualities of power, unpredictability, and a seemingly endless expanse of life-sustaining freshwater.

The lake’s rugged yet fragile nature, hardscrabble characters, and outpost communities define rural Northern Ontario. 

Experience it for yourself in this first collection of stories by one of the region’s most acclaimed journalists.

Don’t miss this opportunity. 

For those who are passionate about Lake Superior; its mysticism, its spirituality, its people, and its protection, this book is for you.

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