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Great Lakes booksBrehem, Victoria.
Summary: From the Native water monster who raised canoe-killing storms to thousand-foot cargo ships, sailing the Great Lakes has inspired autobiography, folksong, poetry, and fiction about some of the most beautiful, most dangerous, waters in the world. In the words of the men and women who lived them, here are the dangers and triumphs, the ghosts and mysteries, the daredevil risks and losses, spanning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 BRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival BrehmKadar, Wayne Louis.
Summary: "This book tells the tales of some of each, heroes who risked all to save the lives of others and those whose lust for money justified their lack of morals. There are the courageous men and women of the United State[s] and Canadian Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard who have heroically risked their lives when the lives of others were in peril. In contrast to the heroics some people have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KADGrady, Wayne.
Summary: "This book is an exploration of the biology and ecology of a vital, ever-changing terrain. Written by one of Canada's best-known science and nature writers, it is intended not only for those who live in the Great Lakes basin but for anyone captivated by the splendor of the natural world and sensitive to the challenges of its preservation."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature GradyDennis, Jerry.
Summary: Dennis offers an engrossing description of being a crew member on the schooner Malabar on a six-week trip through the waters of Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior, weaving in anecdotes from his childhood, such as a family-fishing trip on Lake Michigan, together with informed commentary on the natural history of the lakes and the people who live there as well as evocative...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio [a division of] Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977 DENDennis, Jerry.
Summary: The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 DENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 DENDennis, Jerry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 DENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 DENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature DennisCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 DENBourrie, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 BOUHemming, 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 HEMBoyer, Dwight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 BOYButts, Edward
Summary: Traces the history of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and the various myths and legends attributed to specific tragedies, revealing the violent conditions that have wrecked thousands of vessels since 1679, along with monster sightings in Lakes Ontario and Erie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J 971.3 BUTPowers, Tom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 POWSummary: Stories of the men who built the Midwest, with descriptions and histories of the shores, the woods and lakes, rolling farmland, the rise of the great metropolises of Chicago and Minneapolis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Castle 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 TALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 TALKohl, Cris.
Summary: A proven bestseller just got better! New second edition includes the 51 best shipwrecks in the eastern Great Lakes (Lakes Ontario, Erie & Huron). Several new shipwrecks not in the previous edition appear now due to recent discoveries and sinkings. Exciting histories and wreck descriptions. Updated and new GPS coordinates for precisely locating shipwrecks. 122 color photos spread throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seawolf Communications 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 KOH VOL 1Call number: 910.452 KOH VOL 2
Boyer, Dwight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 BOYHancock, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 HANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 917.704 HANRatigan, William.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.03 RAT1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.03 RAT
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 387.2 RATSwayze, David D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harbor House Pub. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 SWABarcus, Frank
Summary: Yarns and reminiscences of the greatest storm in inland navigation.
Format: text
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 BarcusGutsche, Andrea
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lynx Images 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 GUTFrederickson, Arthur C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Door County Publishing Co. 1961