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  • Sailing into History

    Great Lakes Bulk Carriers of the Twentieth Century and the Crews Who Sailed Them

    by Frank Boles ...
    The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century. This ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Visiting Mackinac

    150 Years of Tourism at Michigan's Fabled Straits

    by Frank Boles ...
    The Straits of Mackinac have been a tourist destination for more than 150 years. The story of how tourism developed on Mackinac Island and in the adjacent communities of St. Ignace and Mackinaw City is brought to life in this fascinating book, with stories from the people who helped shape it. This complex work explores the factors that shaped this region into the tourist destination that it is ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

    by Dan Egan ...
    **New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWinner 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 ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole

    Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole

    by Bruce Henderson ...
    "Nail-biting true adventure."--Kirkus ReviewsIn 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every crime from rape to murder." ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • November's Fury

    The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913

    by Michael Schumacher ...
    On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication was not much better; by the time it became clear that a freshwater hurricane of epic proportions was ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Living Great Lakes

    Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas

    by Jerry Dennis ...
    Award-winning nature author Jerry Dennis reveals the splendor and beauty of North America’s Great Lakes in this “masterwork”* history and memoir of the essential environmental and economical region shared by the United States and Canada.No bodies of water compare to the Great Lakes. Superior is the largest lake on earth, and together all five contain a fifth of the world’s supply of standing fresh ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Wexford

    Elusive Shipwreck of the Great Storm, 1913

    by Paul Carroll ...
    Winner for the 2010 SOS Marine Heritage AwardThe steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful final voyage was ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflection on America's Great Loop: A Baby Boomer Couple's Year-Long Boating Odyssey

    by George Hospodar, Patricia Hospodar ...
    Adventure is not just for the young!Though “I own a boat!” was the opening phrase to their courtship and eventual married life, little did “Baby Boomer” couple, George and Pat Hospodar, know then that those words would lead to their making a year-long “journey of a lifetime” aboard their boat, Reflection, almost forty years later.Reflection on America’s Great Loop welcomes and encourages not only ... Read more

    $20.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World of Ham Radio, 1901-1950

    A Social History

    by Richard A. Bartlett ...
    During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form. Because of the few government restrictions and the low monetary investment required, the concept of ham radio appealed to various people. More than just a simple hobby, however, ham radio required its operators to understand radio theory, be able to trace a schematic and know ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Navy Tin Can Man

    by Capt R.A. Jaycox ...
    This is a story about a young man who grew up next to Lake Erie, loving boats and loving the water. Fishing, sailing, swimming his younger days were a dream come true. Then at 17 years old WW-2 started and he signed up for the US Navy. His life aboard a US Navy destroyer is as interesting account of life as a sailor. His life returning home is of a guy that loved the Lakes, the Ocean and the sea. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Great Polar Fraud

    Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole

    by Anthony Galvin ...
    In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans-Frederick Cook and Robert Peary-each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims. Finally the National Geographic Society endorsed Peary, and the matter seemed settled. In May 1926 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Eskimo and The Oil Man

    The Battle at the Top of the World for America's Future

    by Bob Reiss ...
    The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region's traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the polar regions may become the next Panama Canal, the next ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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