WE use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are frequently incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. Dustjacket has edge wear at corners and at extremities of spine. Generally clean, firm copy but front hinge partly cracked and a little spotting to boards. Shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes. Chilling watercolor illustrations, photographs, maps, and news clippings accentuate Ratigan's compelling and dramatic storytelling.Cloth. An entire section is dedicated to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - the most famous maritime loss in modern times - in Lake Superior in 1975. Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are the magnificent excursion liner Eastland, which capsized at her pier in the Chicago River, drowning 835 people within clutching distance of busy downtown streets the shipwrecked steel freighter Mataafa, which dumped its crew into freezing waters while the snowbound town of Duluth looked on the dark Sunday in November 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale and the bitter November of 1958 when the Bradley went down in Lake Michigan during one of the greatest killer storms on the freshwater seas.
Language eng Summary In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away.
Label Great Lakes shipwrecks & survivals Title Great Lakes shipwrecks & survivals Creator Sailors, historians, and general readers alike will be swept away by these unforgettable tales of tragedy and heroism Chilling watercolor illustrations, photographs, maps, and news clippings accentuate Ratigan's compelling and dramatic storytelling.
Summary In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away.
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