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Author | : Frank Oppel |
Publisher | : Secaucus, N.J. : Castle |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2008-05-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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With hundred of original illustrations, Tales of the Great Lakes encompasses the stories of the men who built the Midwest,
Author | : Dwight Boyer |
Publisher | : New York : Dodd, Mead |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert B. Townsend |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 1996-07-26 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1459713494 |
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For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world. C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider's writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider's stories, adds some of his own.
Author | : Frederick Stonehouse |
Publisher | : Gwinn, Mich. : Avery Color Studios |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Lighthouse Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Stories of wreck and rescue, death and sacrifice, all thread their way through the pages of this remarkable tribute to the 'wickies' of a bygone era. The book speaks of the courage of the old time keepers and their families, not just in rescuing shipwreck victims but also in the tenacity of their daily lives ... Narratives include : The thrilling story of the steamer "George W. Perkins" and it's close encounter with the Lansing Shoal Light during the height of the infamous 1940 Armistice Day storm ; Superior Shoal and the lighthouse that wasn't ; The death of six brave Coast Guardsmen at Oswego, New York in 1942 ; Poverty Island Light and the mysterious treasure ..."--Back cover.
Author | : Dan Egan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393246442 |
Download The Death and Life of the Great Lakes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Author | : Richard Gebhart |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-12-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1948314118 |
Download Ships and Shipwrecks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the day that French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched the Griffin in 1679 to the 1975 sinking of the celebrated Edmund Fitzgerald, thousands of commercial ships have sailed on the vast and perilous waters of the Great Lakes. In a harbinger of things to come, on the return leg of its first trip in late summer 1679, the Griffin disappeared and has never been seen again. In the centuries since then, the records show that an alarming number of shipwrecks have occurred on the Great Lakes. If vessels that wrecked but were later repaired and returned to service are included, the number certainly swells into the thousands. Most did not mysteriously vanish like the Griffin. Instead, they suffered the occupational hazards of every lake boat: collisions, groundings, strands, fires, boiler explosions, and capsizes. Many of these disasters took the lives of crews and passengers. The fearsome wrath of the storms that brew over the Great Lakes has challenged and defeated some of the staunchest vessels constructed in the shipyards of port cities along the U.S. and Canadian lakeshores. Here Richard Gebhart tells the tales of some of these ships and their captains and crews, from their launches to their sad demises—or sometimes, their celebrated retirements. This volume is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the maritime history of the Great Lakes.
Author | : Dwight Boyer |
Publisher | : New York : Dodd, Mead |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Fourteen accounts of shipwrecks, salvage operations and sailors' experiences on the world's largest fresh-water seas.
Author | : Robert B. Townsend |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1996-07-26 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1554883024 |
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For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world. C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto’s The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider’s writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider’s stories, adds some of his own.
Author | : Jerry Dennis |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312331030 |
Download The Living Great Lakes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Andrea Gutsche |
Publisher | : Lynx Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Mysterious Islands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Guided tours of remote islands on the Great Lakes.