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Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

by Ed Butts
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In 1679, a French ship called the Griffon left Green Bay on Lake Michigan, bound for Niagara with a cargo of furs. Neither the Griffon nor the five-man crew was ever seen again. Though the Griffon’s fate remains a mystery, its disappearance was probably the result of the first shipwreck on a Great Lake.
Since then, more than six thousand vessels, large and small, have met tragic ends on the Great Lakes. For many years, saltwater mariners scoffed at the freshwater sailors of the Great Lakes, “puddles” compared to the vast oceans. But those who actually worked on the Great Lakes ships knew differently.
Shoals and reefs, uncharted rocks, and sandbars could snare a ship or rip open a hull. Unpredictable winds could capsize a vessel at any moment. A ship caught in a storm had much less room to maneuver than did one at sea. The wreckage of ships and the bones of the people who sail them litter the bottoms of the five lakes: Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior. Ed Butts has gathered stories and lake lore in this fascinating, frightening volume. For anyone living on the shores of the Great Lakes, these tales will inspire a new interest and respect for their storied past.

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    January 11, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9781770492592

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      • ISBN: 9781770492592
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Text Difficulty: 3-6

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      December 15, 2010

      Awash in mighty squalls, tales of heroism and melodramatic chapter headings like "The Lady Elgin: Death in the Darkness," these marine yarns recount the violent ends of nine of the more than 6,000 ships that have "left the bottoms of Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior...littered with their wreckage and the bones of the people who sailed on them" over the past four centuries. For added value, Butts heads each shipwreck chapter with a photo or image of the unfortunate vessel. He then closes with so many Great Lakes monster sightings that they take on an aura of authenticity just by their very number, an effect aided and abetted by his liberal use of primary sources. Younger readers who might get bogged down in Michael Varhola's more thorough Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes (2008)—or turned off by its invented dialogue and embroidered details—will find these robust historical accounts more digestible and at least as engrossing. The bibliography is dominated by Canadian sources, as befitting the book's origin, but there's plenty here to interest American readers. (Nonfiction. 11-13)

      (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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  • English

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  • Text Difficulty:3-6

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