Uncharted Waters

Romance, Adventure, and Advocacy on the Great Lakes

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Pub Date 03 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 30 Aug 2018

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Mary McKSchmidt is an adventurer—a woman who has wandered across southern Africa; achieved success in positions typically held by men; hikes, bikes, and camps alone; and joins her fun-loving, equally-adventuresome husband on sailing voyages across the sometimes treacherous, always unpredictable, waters of Lake Michigan. When she discovered that Lake Michigan and all the Great Lakes are at risk, potentially damaged beyond repair, she replaced her briefcase, calculator, and business suit with a notepad, camera, and foul weather gear and embarked on a new adventure, this time to help create the political will necessary to clean up and protect the lakes.Written in a voice that is charming, witty, and honest, McKSchmidt’s Uncharted Waters: Romance, Adventure, and Advocacy on the Great Lakes (14 Karat Books, July 20, 2018) is the story of a Fortune 500 executive learning to sail, learning to love, and learning to fight for the water and life she holds dear. Captivating, heart-warming, and insightful, Uncharted Waters is not just a love story, but a call to action.  It serves as a reminder that while we can live without a lot of things, clean, safe drinking water is not one of them.

Mary McKSchmidt is an adventurer—a woman who has wandered across southern Africa; achieved success in positions typically held by men; hikes, bikes, and camps alone; and joins her fun-loving...


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Author is available for interviews, blog tours, autographed tours, autographed book giveaways, contests, and book club discussions.

Author is available for interviews, blog tours, autographed tours, autographed book giveaways, contests, and book club discussions.


Advance Praise

I am deeply touched by Mary McKSchmidt's movement through space and time. Movement on the sailboat, movement in tandem with her husband, graceful acceptance of the passage of time, and a sense of the eternal value and beauty of the lakes.

Dave Dempsey, author of On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century, Last Summer on Lake Huron, and Protector, Not Manager

 

In this vital tribute to our water-love, Mary McKSchmidt mixes adventure, life learning, and solid information about our Great Lakes waters. You won’t stop turning pages as she combines high-tension tales of riding our Great Lakes storms, sailing into our beauteous sunsets, and transforming the life you chose into the life you really want to live.  Her deeply thoughtful meditations on healing our lakes are matched by her keen awareness of the brutal threats to our waters. Through the joys and losses of life on the lakes, she keeps our hearts focused on what it means to love our waters.

Anne-Marie Oomen, author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid (with Linda Nemec Foster), and Love, Sex and 4-H, Indie Next Generation Award for Memoir

 

Mary McKSchmidt’s writing is passionately lyrical, a quilt of experience chapter to chapter. Neither tedious in its information nor superficial in its appeal, the book chronicles McSchmidt’s life-altering realization that “My job was always finding water.”

Jack Ridl, author of Losing Season, Practicing to Walk Like a Heron, and Saint Peter and the Goldfinch

 

Riveting with an urgent message to all of us living alongside these lakes.

Lisa Ruoff, 2017 Commodore of the Macatawa Bay Yacht Club

 

One can’t help but be drawn into this woman’s search for balance as she and her husband sail from one adventure to another on the Great Lakes, juggling careers, their relationship, and her passion for protecting the Great Lakes and the abundant and diverse plant and animal life along the shores.

David Ullrich, Great Lakes Advocate

I am deeply touched by Mary McKSchmidt's movement through space and time. Movement on the sailboat, movement in tandem with her husband, graceful acceptance of the passage of time, and a sense of the...


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About the Author:

Mary Schmidt is a former executive for Baxter Healthcare, a Fortune 500 company, who writes under the pen name “Mary McKSchmidt.” She is a contributor to Michigan Blue and Sail magazines, a former columnist for The Holland Sentinel, and has written op-ed pieces for MLive. Her essay “Can One Person Make a Difference?” was read in the opening session of the 2006 Great Lakes Restoration Conference, sponsored by the Healing Our Waters Coalition, which includes more than 145 organizations advocating for the restoration and protection of the Great Lakes. Her essay “Behind the Lens of a Camera” was also selected to appear in the 2016 Bear River Review.

The poet and photographer of Tiny Treasures: Discoveries Made Along the Lake Michigan Coast, along with her 2018 release Uncharted Waters: Romance, Adventure, and Advocacy on the Great Lakes, Schmidt is a natural storyteller who has shared her adventures with audiences at garden clubs, professional women’s organizations, state and county nature centers, assisted-living facilities, and environmental organizations throughout West Michigan. Her monthly blog and “Skosh of Poetry” may be found at www.marymckschmidt.com or her Facebook Page.

About the Author:

Mary Schmidt is a former executive for Baxter Healthcare, a Fortune 500 company, who writes under the pen name “Mary McKSchmidt.” She is a contributor to Michigan Blue and Sail...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781732100909
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