Product Description
Shelter at the Shore: Boathouses of Muskoka, the sequel to our bestselling At the Water's Edge: Muskoka's Boathouses, takes us inside 25 more of this famous lake district's most enticing boathouses -- the rustic, the charming, the grand and the glamorous. Find out what the owners, architects and designers did to make each boathouse a truly exceptional place to live, as well as to store canoes, motorboats and vintage mahogany launches. Shelter at the Shore is great source of design ideas for cottagers, interior decorators, builders and even landlocked homeowners. It also contains the delightful stories of how these singular shoreline structures came to be and why they are so beloved -- and often coveted. Shelter at the Shore offers an exclusive look at lakeside life and style in incomparable Muskoka.
About the Author
John de Visser's photographs have been collected in more than forty books. His outstanding collections for the Boston Mills Press include Newfoundland Souvenir, Spirit of the Garden, Rideau, At the Water's Edge, Summer Cottages, Muskoka, Georgian Bay, Grand River Reflections, Credit River Valley, and Thousand Islands. In 1994 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication.
Judy Ross is the co-author of five other books with John de Visser. Her travel and lifestyle articles appear regularly in such magazines as House and Home, Town and Country, Travel and Leisure and Country Life. She lives in Collingwood, Ontario.
