Ice water museum

Author / Creator

Oleszewski, Wes, 1957-

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"Records show that more than 3,500 lakers have been lost on the five Great Lakes. The bottoms of the big lakes are littered with the remains of wooden schooners, sidewheel steamers, arched package ...

"Records show that more than 3,500 lakers have been lost on the five Great Lakes. The bottoms of the big lakes are littered with the remains of wooden schooners, sidewheel steamers, arched package freighters, iron and steel ore freighters of all kinds, many well-preserved in the cold dark depths. Undiscovered are the vast majority of these wrecks, waiting for decades and in many cases, centuries. The blue-green expanse of the Great Lakes is in essence an enormous ice water Museum, where some of the exhibits are on open display, some are accessible to only a few visitors and most are waiting in the depths, forgotten or undiscovered. In this book the reader will be taken on a tour of the ice water museum, and along the way we will look into the obscure and often forgotten adventures of the vessels and people who have sailed the lakes."--Back cover.

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