Great Stories of the Great Lakes by Boyer, Dwight

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Binding
Paperback
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Product Group
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IsTextBook
Yes
ISBN
9780912514499
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
THUNDER Bay Press
ISBN-10
0912514493
ISBN-13
9780912514499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
535649

Product Key Features

Book Title
Great Stories of the Great Lakes
Number of Pages
242 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / MidWest / East North Central (Il, in, Mi, Oh, Wi), General, Maritime History & Piracy
Publication Year
1966
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Fiction, History
Author
Dwight Boyer
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
977
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
The first commercial ship to sail the Great Lakes promptly vanished on its maiden voyage, a prophetic beginning to the grim and tragic history of navigation on the world's greatest fresh-water seas. The ribs and plates of thousands of vessels - the immigrant ships, brigs, schooners, steel freighters, and even big salt-water tramp ships, built to go anywhere in the world - today lie fathoms deep, victims of fierce storms, collisions, fires, shoals, and the myriad hazards of navigation. Here, too, are the ghosts of the men who sailed them, tramping the decks of lost ships. It is typical of the sailor's lot, too, that while they died as heroically as their brethren on salt water, many of them perished unknown and unheralded.Written by a newspaperman who had spent years collecting and documenting the history of lakeships and the men who sail them, Great Stories of the Great Lakes brings to light the heroism, tragedy, and humor, largely overlooked by history, that was and is part and parcel of the evolution of the great inland oceans. These are true stories of the ships and men who played their parts in eras when the fresh-water ships were growing from tiny brigantines to the huge vessels of today, some of them among the largest in the American and Canadian merchant fleets. These stories make for fascinating, exciting reading.

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