Along Lake Michigan by Michael Schumacher - 9781517916770

Name: Along Lake Michigan by Michael Schumacher - 9781517916770
Brand: University of Minnesota Press

University of Minnesota Press

Along Lake MichiganShipwreck Stories of Life and Loss\nAuthor(s): Michael Schumacher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517916770, 978-1517916770\nSynopsis\nNotable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes\n\n 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. \n\n Surveying the wreckage throughout the decades, from the fiery end of the twin propellerdriven 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 shipcr.