Nothing
goes with water like boats, and a state with shoreline on three of the five
Great Lakes must be forgiven for being a trifle boat-obsessed. Forgiven? How
about indulged?
Avery
Color Studies up in Gwinn caters to lovers of Michigan history with a couple of
new titles this year. Whalebacks: Wrecked, Scrapped, Lost & Forgotten, by Neel R. Zoss,
tells the story of Great Lakes boats so “deeply laden with cargo, the boats
reminded folks of the curved backs of whales pushing out of the water.” These
freighters were designed and built by Alexander McDougall – but you can find
out much, much more by reading the book.
Sailors
and landlubbers who can’t get enough of shipwrecks will want the new book by
Wes Oleszewski, Wooden Ships and Deadly Seas: True Shipwrecks and the Deadly
Great Lakes,
a book that promises no fiction and no concocted events. It’s all just good,
clean disaster!
Whalebacks:
Wrecked, Scrapped, Lost & Forgotten,
by
Neel R. Zoss
Paper,
261 pp, $17.95
Wooden
Ships and Deadly Seas: True Shipwrecks and the Deadly Great Lakes,
by
Wes Oleszewski
Paper,
185pp, $16.95
And,
as always, Avery Color Studios books are “Proudly Printed in Michigan, U.S.A.”
We like that, don’t you?
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