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More imagesPublished by London. 1969. Macmillan / Collier Macmillan, 1969
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. blue & black decorative (ship on spine) gilt lettered full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. front cover has a couple tiny spots . minor sunfaded strip along the top. edges clean. cont…ents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in near fine cond. couple 1cm tears spine top, flaps creased inside, minor soiling, pencil scratch on rear. nice clean vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 6th printing. endpaper maps. illustrated title pg.xvii+421p. 16 glossy b&w photos & illustrations. world history. american history. canadian history. history of new france. maritime history. nautical history. naval history. war of 1812. ~ Extending into the heart of North America, the Great Lakes have for three hundred and fifty years been waterways of exploration, travel, immigration, and commerce. The history of these years is told in this volume in the firsthand narratives of the people who witnessed the scenes and the episodes in the shaping of this great inland maritime empire from its beginnings. Selecting the most dramatic and revealing of the stories, diaries, journals, and letters, Walter Havighurst, who has long loved the region, has woven them together with a running commentary that unites the whole exciting history. Priests, fur traders, and explorers in the days of the voyageurs contribute tales of incredible hardship and heroism. There is Father Hennepin's voyage with La Salle on the Griffin, the first commercial boat on the Lakes, foretelling the "inconceivable commerce" that would someday come to the empty waters of what Melville called "those grand fresh water seas of ours." The lone survivor of an Indian massacre writes a chilling account of his experience; a young surgeon who was on Perry's flagship, the Lawrence, describes the hardwon victory of 1813. There are stirring stories of the early steamboats the Ontario, the Frontenac, and the Walk~In~The~Water, which plied the Great Lakes at a time when the surrounding territory was the Indian West, the frontier of America. And there is a section on the great storms and wrecks, including a passenger's description of the loss of the Walk~In~The~Water. The journals of Douglass Houghton, the brilliant young scientist are included, along with a firsthand account by two of his boatmen of his early death by drowning. There are the diaries and reminiscences of the men who were first on the scene in the copper rush of the mid~1840's and of the later iron discoveries. And there is the story of the stubborn dream of years that led to the Merritt brothers' discovery of the Mesabi Iron Range. The history of the ore ships, the locks, and the canals is traced by the men who envisioned them and built them. An eyewitness report recounts a comic~opera incident in which a U.S. Army company and the state of Michigan tangled in hand~to~hand combat over an abandoned millrace. Most of the incidents and adventures narrated in the book occurred many years before such cities as Minneapolis and Cleveland reared their skyscrapers over the twelve hundred miles of blue water, but it is because of the heroism and endurance ot these earlier Americans that they are there today, looking out over an area that saw much of America's history in the making. Sixteen pages of illustrations and endpaper map.
