Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
Autor Michael Schumacheren Hardback – 22 iul 2025
The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some estimates), and Lake Michigan has more than the other four lakes combined. The stories of those wrecks tell the history of that mighty lake in its endless, mercurial challenge to human endeavor.
Surveying the wreckage throughout the decades, from the fiery end of the twin propeller–driven Phoenix in 1847 to the failure of the Anna Minch to outrun the infamous 1940 Armistice Day storm, Michael Schumacher charts the course of shipping disasters great and small on Lake Michigan. He illuminates the details of maritime weather and shipcraft, the lives devoted to and lost on the water, and the mistakes and monumental failures that led to these ships’ watery ends.
Schumacher’s deft storytelling, drawing from deep research and comprehensive knowledge, brings forth the vivid details of the last minutes of these doomed ships, along with the circumstances surrounding their voyages. Here are tragic tales like that of the Eastland, the deadliest shipwreck in Great Lakes history, lost while docked in the Chicago River; the Rouse Simmons, a wooden schooner loaded with Christmas trees; the train ferry Milwaukee and the Wisconsin, a package freighter, gone within one week of each other in October 1929; and the passenger vessel the Lady Elgin, a devastating loss met with incredible heroism.
Liberally illustrated with historical photographs, the stories of these shipwrecks, spanning a full century of commercial traffic on Lake Michigan, document the myriad forms of bravery and misfortune that mark our encounters with the Great Lakes.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781517916770
ISBN-10: 1517916771
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 53 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10: 1517916771
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 53 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Notă biografică
Michael Schumacher is the author of several books on Great Lakes shipwrecks, including Mighty Fitz, November’s Fury, Torn in Two, and The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald (all from Minnesota). He has written narratives for twenty-five Great Lakes shipwreck and lighthouse documentary films. He lives in Wisconsin close to the shores of Lake Michigan.