A Place on Water

A natural history memoir of northwest Wisconsin

by Peter D. Nordgren

Cover of the book "A Place on Water" by Peter D. Nordgren. The photo features lily pads on a small lake.

It begins with a small hand-painted wooden sign nailed to a skinny popple tree.

Come along on Peter Nordgren’s journey as he and his family make their home in the north country of Wisconsin. Living by a small lake, they meet the plants and creatures living around them as the seasons pass and changes come. You’ll come away with a vivid sense of place and a new understanding of the forest community of the north.

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You will live in the woods by the shore of a small lake. What will you find there? What plants and creatures surround you? What will they mean to your life, and what will you mean to theirs?

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A photo of a northern Wisconsin lake. In the foreground are water lilies, in the background a shoreline with white pines leaning out by the water.