Mixter, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9777 MIX

Jensen, John Odin

Summary: "Shipwrecks are junction points of history. In seeking to make sense of the submerged material culture found in shipwrecks, this book explores maritime-related stories that shaped the Midwest and the nation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In shipwrecks, we find stories of the frontier, the environment, immigration, politics, and the rise of large-scale agriculture,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 JEN

Schumacher, 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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.033 SCH

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.033 SCH