Graveyard of the Lakes (Great Lakes Books Series)

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For the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks so as 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 last 300 years. Taking a look at all the tragic history of shipwrecks on North The us’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. In Graveyard of the Lakes, Thompson suggests that among the accidents and deaths on the lakes have been the results of human error, ranging from simple mistakes to gross incompetence. Along with his compelling analysis of the causes of shipwrecks, Thompson includes factual accounts of multiple hundred wrecks. Graveyard of the Lakes will endlessly change the reader’s perspective on shipwrecks.

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