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- catalog abstract ""For the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks in an effort to reach a clearer understanding of the economic, political, and psychological factors that have influenced the 25,000 wrecks on the Great Lakes over the past 300 years. Looking at the entire tragic history of ship-wrecks on North America's expansive inland seas, from the 1679 loss of the Griffon to the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, Mark L. Thompson concludes that a wreck is not an isolated event."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11747141.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""For the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks in an effort to reach a clearer understanding of the economic, political, and psychological factors that have influenced the 25,000 wrecks on the Great Lakes over the past 300 years. Looking at the entire tragic history of ship-wrecks on North America's expansive inland seas, from the 1679 loss of the Griffon to the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, Mark L. Thompson concludes that a wreck is not an isolated event."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-400) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: A river of tears -- Beached whales: groundings -- The cauldrons of Hades: fire and boiler explosions -- Fatal encounters: collisions -- The curse of the eleventh month: founderings -- A commonsense postmortem: the sinking of the Fitzgerald -- Bean counters, bureaucrats, and cowboy captains: the human factor in shipwrecks.".
- catalog extent "416 p. :".
- catalog identifier "081432889X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Great Lakes books".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Detroit : Wayne State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Lakes (North America)".
- catalog spatial "Great Lakes.".
- catalog subject "977 21".
- catalog subject "G525 .T475 2000".
- catalog subject "Shipwrecks Great Lakes (North America)".
- catalog subject "Shipwrecks Great Lakes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: A river of tears -- Beached whales: groundings -- The cauldrons of Hades: fire and boiler explosions -- Fatal encounters: collisions -- The curse of the eleventh month: founderings -- A commonsense postmortem: the sinking of the Fitzgerald -- Bean counters, bureaucrats, and cowboy captains: the human factor in shipwrecks.".
- catalog title "Graveyard of the lakes / Mark L. Thompson.".
- catalog type "text".