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Michigan's Venice
Publication Date: April 2024
Viewed over time, the region forms a microcosm of the interplay of environment, culture, and technology that characterized the gradual shift from nature to an industrial society and a built environment optimized for global waterborne transport.
Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company
Publication Date: May 2018
Readers interested in the maritime history of the Great Lakes and the industries that developed around them will find this book fascinating.
Queen of the Lakes
Publication Date: December 2017
Queen of the Lakes is a Great Lake Books publication.
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
Publication Date: December 2017
fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Harborless
Publication Date: June 2017
This collection accomplishes that task through history and imagination, producing lake lore that will speak to historians and those interested in ships, poetry, and the Great Lakes.
Iron Fleet
Publication Date: December 2016
Based mainly on original research from primary sources, Iron Fleet explores the use of Great Lakes shipyards for the production of salt water civilian and military vessels, the role of the Great Lakes passenger ships in providing vacation opportunities for war workers, and the extensive measures taken to to safeguard...
Graveyard of the Lakes
Publication Date: April 2004
Graveyard of the Lakes will forever change the reader's perspective on shipwrecks.
Beyond the Windswept Dunes
Publication Date: June 2003
The book offers many first-hand statements of shipwreck survivors and other witnesses, lending an authentic voice to the accounts.
Schooner Passage
Publication Date: January 2001
Schooner Passage will interest scholars and students of Great Lakes and American history as well as the general reader interested in nineteenth-century western expansion.
Life on the Great Lakes
Publication Date: February 1991
Historians, folklore buffs, and ship lovers will discover details of vessel operation usually available only in the dialogue of a passing generation of very elderly sailors.
Freshwater Fury
Publication Date: December 1986
The many drawings, maps, and diagrams executed by the author add pictorial interest to the story of this dramatic struggle between men and the elements.
