Voices from the Sweetwater Seas
Author | : William Ford Keefe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : William Ford Keefe |
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Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Bob Ojala |
Publisher | : The Unapologetic Voice House |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-02-16 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1734569352 |
Take a trip on the Great Lakes with Sweetwater Sailors. This entertaining, historical and factual book brings you up close and personal with Great Lakes Merchant Mariners, both men and women, including the only American woman Captain of a large Great Lakes ore carrier. You'll have a first person perspective on the jobs they perform and what makes them continue working in a potentially dangerous profession, which keeps them away from home most of the year. Great Lakes merchant sailors provided photographs of their own experiences and collaborated with the author, Bob Ojala by sharing many interesting and funny stories of their years on the Great Lakes. If you're interested in the history of the Great Lakes, ships of all kinds, and women in atypical careers, will enjoy this book. The author spent four years in the U.S. Coast Guard, 17 years as a ship Surveyor with the American Bureau of Shipping, nearly 9 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and has managed in his own business as a marine consultant for 30 years. Bob is still active in the marine industry. His father was a Merchant Mariner for 32 years, giving Bob the interest in the Maritime Industry, his hundreds of contacts with sailors, and his respect for their profession.
Author | : James Stewart Doubleday |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Child health services |
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Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Great Lakes |
ISBN | : |
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Total Pages | : 2520 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Stephen Azzato |
Publisher | : Quiet Light Pub. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-10-10 |
Genre | : Musicians |
ISBN | : 9780975395431 |
Author | : Anne Rivers Siddons |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061755044 |
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've turned the last page.
Author | : Kinley Bryan |
Publisher | : Blue Mug Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1737915219 |
In 1913, a powerful and dangerous storm descends on the Great Lakes — and three sisters find their lives transformed amid the chaos in this "superb, character-driven adventure" (Publishers Weekly). Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream—to open a restaurant back home—but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves. In Sunny’s Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who died in an accident she believes she could have prevented. Burdened with regret and longing for more than her job at the dry goods store, she looks for comfort in a secret infatuation. Two hundred miles away in Cleveland, the youngest sister, Cordelia Blythe, has pinned her hopes for adventure on her marriage to a lake freighter captain. Finding herself alone and restless in her new town, she joins him on the season’s last trip up the lakes. On November 8, 1913, a powerful storm descends on the Great Lakes, bringing hurricane-force winds, whiteout blizzard conditions, and mountainous waves that last for days. Amidst the chaos all three women are offered a glimpse of the clarity they seek, if only they dare to perceive it. Kinley Bryan's debut, a Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice, is inspired by actual events during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, as well as her own family history. "This is historical fiction at its best" (Molly Gartland, author of The Girl from the Hermitage).
Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Church buildings |
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Author | : Jerry Dennis |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312331030 |
The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.