Launch of From Asessippi to Zed Lake: A Guide to Manitoba's Provincial Parks (Great Plains Publications).
Tell people that Manitoba has over 80 provincial parks and the usual response is disbelief. This book offers a comprehensive look at all of the province’s provincial parks, blending historical information, first-hand experience and trivia into an indispensible and beautifully illustrated guide.
Author Shelley Penziwol is a researcher, writer and civil servant living in Winnipeg. Her first book, Storm Signals: A History of Weather in Manitoba, was published in 2004.
Peter Blahut is a Winnipeg-based self taught landscape and wildlife photographer. Since retiring from the Manitoba civil service in 2007, he spends most of his time devoted to photography and travel.
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Tell people that Manitoba has over 80 provincial parks and the usual response is disbelief. Just in Manitoba you say? You bet. And with that many, there is probably one close to where you...
