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Great Lakes Great Lakes (North America) History Great Lakes (North America) History 20th century Great Lakes (North America) Navigation History 20th century Merchant ships Great Lakes (North America) History 20th century Michigan History Shipping Great Lakes (North America) History 20th century Shipwrecks Shipwrecks Great Lakes (North America) History 20th century Storms Great Lakes (North America) History 20th centuryBoles, Frank
Summary: "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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.54 BOLMixter, Ric
Summary: "Messages in a bottle were a last ditch effort calling for rescue, or desperate goodbyes to loved ones. Penned by Christopher Columbus and passengers on Titanic, history has recorded thousands of bottles, but which ones are hoaxes? Historian Ric Mixter investigates and adds new information to famous and unknown messages on the ocean and Great Lakes." -- page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Airworthy Productions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9777 MIXSchumacher, Michael
Contents: "How could such a thing happen on a goddamn lake?" Lakes Superior and Michigan -- "So violent a storm": apocalypse on Lake Huron -- "You might not have light tonight": the storm visits Cleveland -- "I might see you in heaven": explorations of loss -- "This was not natural": discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.033 SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.033 SCHGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1981
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GRE1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 386.22 Green
Hemming, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.031 HEMPlanisek, Sandra L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Assoc. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.155 PLAOleszewski, Wes
Summary: "Those who had yet to be born when World War II raged cannot imagine the fear, anger, suffering and sacrifice experienced by those who witnessed and fought in that conflict. Not only was freedom threatened, but the very fabric of human civilization was in danger. In order to preserve their very existence, free people had to mobilize and fight the evil that threatened to envelope the world. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 OLEBrown, David G. (David Geren)
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 BRODutton, Fred W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUTPowers, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 POWBarcus, Frank
Summary: Yarns and reminiscences of the greatest storm in inland navigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977 BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South BarcusStonehouse, Frederick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 STOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 STODamm, Peter L.
Summary: Stories of a young boy's journey to adulthood in small town rural Upper Midwest in the 1950s and 60s. A funny, poignant, moving and beautifully written memoir about the challenges, mischief, fears and lessons of growing up as the youngest of five brothers and one sister, Catholic education, the natural world, trying to understand religious and adult mysteries, honor, family, truth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien & Whitaker 2019