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The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books)
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Product Description
A popular history of navigation on the Great Lakes and life on their shores, The Long Ships Passing brings us aboard the crafts that have plowed the waves of the treacherous "five sisters" carrying the grain, lumber, and minerals that fed and built the cities of America. Walter Havighurst paints vivid pictures of life-and death-on the lakes, mysterious accounts of wooden ships and iron men that sank to freshwater graves, especially along the immigrant route where the wrecks lie thick. In rich and marvelous detail, this classic history recounts the saga of an inland marine empire.
A longtime professor of English at Miami University, Walter Havighurst (1901-1994) grew up in Wisconsin and was a prolific and passionate writer of regional history and fiction.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1176224 in Books
- Published on: 2002-05
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Editorial Reviews
Christian Science Monitor
Havighurst has written with power and imagination of the greatest northern waterway of our continent.
New York Herald Book Review
The best and most readable book on the five Great Lakes I have ever seen.
