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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
- Great Lakes Books Series
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Categories: History, Americas
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Publisher's Summary
The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a 60-foot galley weighing nearly 50 tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today.
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the US and Canada, despite the fact that the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years.
Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the 19th century to the present, with a downsized US fleet that numbers fewer than 70 vessels.
The book is published by Wayne State University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
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- 02-26-20
worst narration ever
great content and interesting facts, however the narrator seems incapable of pausing between sentences, chapters, or punctuation marks. Makes it difficult to follow, and unpleasurable to listen to. A great text ruined by terrible narration.