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Book

Too much sea for their decks : shipwrecks of Minnesota's north shore and Isle Royale

Call Number

  • H 917.749 S3924.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

Physical Description

xvii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, passenger vessels, whalebacks, and bulk carriers-some well known, some unknown or forgotten-all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior"--

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