Great Lakes and Maritime

Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors

Ivan H. Walton with Joe Grimm

A collection of stories and songs of the men who sailed the schooners on the Great Lakes in the nineteenth century. Includes 15-track audio CD.

Storm, Fire, and Ice: Shipwrecks of the Saugatuck Area

Jack Sheridan and Kit Lane

A chronological history of Lake Michigan shipwrecks—with special attention to the famous Chicora disaster of 1895.

Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier

Theodore J. Karamanski

An illustrated history of schooner trade on Lake Michigan in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America’s Freshwater Coast

William Ashworth

An environmental travelogue that documents the changes in the Great Lakes since the publication of Ashworth’s earlier book The Late, Great Lakes.

Graveyard of the Lakes

Mark L. Thompson

An analysis of the economic, social, and psychological factors that have influenced shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.

A Sailor’s Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters

Mark L. Thompson

A firsthand account of life aboard the Calcite II during the 1996 shipping season.