A Good Boat Speaks for Itself

A Good Boat Speaks for Itself- Isle Royale Fishermen and Their Boats is a fascinating story of the now extinct Isle Royale fishing culture. Tolson's explorations of the boats' physical remains are woven together with Cochrane's interviews of the last commercial fishermen whose lives and livelihood depended on those boats, restoring an important part of the colorful tapestry that is Isle Royale history, enjoyable to all. 

Author Timothy Cochrane was superintendant at Grand Portage National Monument for twenty years, where he worked closely with the Grand Portage Band of Anishinaabeg and the tribal council.  His books include A Good Boat Speaks for Itself: Isle Royale Fishermen and Their Boats and Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade , both published by the University of Minnesota Press, and Minong: The Good Place- Ojibwe and Isle Royale.