Great Lakes and Maritime

Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair Handbook

Edited by Stanley J. Bolsenga and Charles E. Herdendorf

The most comprehensive reference source available about the lakes, Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair Handbook is an ideal guide for anglers, boaters, swimmers, beach walkers—anyone who uses and enjoys the lakes.

Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes

Mark L. Thompson

Spanning more than three centuries, this important volume documents the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry through its “Golden Age” at the end of the nineteenth century to the present.

Life on the Great Lakes: A Wheelsman’s Story

Fred W. Dutton  •  Edited by William Donohue Ellis

Serving under many captains on a dozen and a half vessels, Dutton captures the flavor of working on Great Lakes ships in the early twentieth century.

Ships, Seafaring and Society: Essays in Maritime History

Edited by Timothy J. Runyan

A collection of twenty essays touching on the fragile, yet enduring relationship between man and the sea.

The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History

William Ashworth

A compelling history of the Great Lakes from their formation in the Ice Age, to their “discovery” by Samuel de Champlian in 1615, and, finally, to their impending death in our time.

Freshwater Fury: Yarns and Reminiscences of the Greatest Storm in Inland Navigation

Frank Barcus

Barcus presents vivid eye-witness accounts of the worst disaster in Great Lakes History, the Great Storm of November 1913.