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Great Lakes Lighthouses<br>American and Canadian

Great Lakes Lighthouses
American and Canadian
Oleszewski, Wes
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

When you look out across any one of the five lakes, all that you will see is a watery horizon that seems to strech forever. By the late 1700s and into the early 1800s, lights were being constucted to warn the mariners of the shoals and shores that could pose a deadly hazard to their vessels. In recent decades, lighthouses have been automated, antiq    more...

Great Lakes Passenger Ship Disasters
Kadar, Wayne Louis
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Fire, mechanical problems, storms and collision can all spell doom to a Great Lakes ship. Ships are destroyed, sailors die and cargo is lost. But when it happens to a passenger ship, it can result in the loss of many, possibly hundreds of lives.

The shipwrecks recovered here describe the terror and devastation of 16 Great Lake passanger ship disa more...

Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Lighthouses
Oleszewski, Wes
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

This is a book of "factual historical narrative". In other words, this is a collection of absolutely true stories of shipwreck and lighthouse adventures, of real people and actual plces on the Great Lakes. Text within these pages contains the sagas of some of the most obscure and thrilling events that can be told of lighthouse keepers, lifesavers a    more...

Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals
Ratigan, William
$18.00

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Tragic, memorable, or miraculous, the author here dramatizes the most spectacular shipwrecks and most incredible survivals in the history of the Great Lakes. Re-creating scenes of high courage and screaming panic, Ratigan writes of strange tales, like the captain who went down with his ship rather than let her die alone, and includes the three grea    more...

Ice Water Museum<br>Forgotten Great Lakes Shipwrecks

Ice Water Museum
Forgotten Great Lakes Shipwrecks
Oleszewski, Wes
$14.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

"Record show that more than 3,500 lakers have been lost on the five Great Lakes. The bottoms of the big lakes are littered with the remains of wooden schooners, sidewheel steamers, arched package freighters, iron and steel ore freighter of all kinds, many well-preserved in the cold dark depths.    more...

Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast
Stonehouse, Frederick
$15.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

A survey of the Maritime Accidents of Lake Superior, from Whitefish Bay's Point Iroquois to Grand Marais. A fascinating look at the many shipwreck, life-savers and lighthouses along the shoreline known as "The Graveyard of Lake Superior." Excellently illustrated with photographs.    more...

Lighthouse Adventures<br>Heroes, Haunts & Havoc on the Great Lakes

Lighthouse Adventures
Heroes, Haunts & Havoc on the Great Lakes
Oleszewski, Wes
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Within these pages will be found short stories, long stories, technical descriptions, shipwrecks, acts of courage, fasinating drawings, details on how things worked, maps of where things are and were, photos, and generally something for everyone.    more...

The Living Great Lakes
Dennis, Jerry
$13.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

"The Living Great Lakes" is the most complete book ever written about the history, nature, and science of the remarkable lakes at the heart of North America. From the geological forces that formed them to the industrial atrocities that nearly destroyed them, to the greatest environmental success stories of our time, the lakes are portrayed in all t    more...

Maritime Manitowoc 1847-1947
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
$19.99

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

From schooners to submarines, Manitowoc has been home to shipbuilders and their craft for over 200 years. Thanks to the vast collections of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Maritime Manitowoc: 1847-1947 uncovers the fascinating and colorful Golden Age of shipbuilding in the area. This book explores the remarkable history of Manitowoc's shipyar    more...

Mysteries And Histories<br>Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

Mysteries And Histories
Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes
Oleszewski, Wes
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Beneath the keels of the giant modern lakeboats that crawl the distant horizon, the lake bottoms are littered with the bones of shipwreck history.    more...

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