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The Trial of the Edmund - Paperback, by Schumacher Michael - Very Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781517906443
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
151790644X
ISBN-13
9781517906443
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038417913
Product Key Features
Book Title
Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald : Eyewitness Accounts from the U. S. Coast Guard Hearings
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Military / United States, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Maritime History & Piracy, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Military
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Transportation, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-061116
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Thanks to The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, readers are privy to the thoughts of crew members of other ships, not to mention ship designers, inspectors, naval engineers and search & rescue personnel, all of whom provided their perspective to investigators in the wake of the accident."-- Failure Magazine "If you think you have read everything there is that's worth reading on the Fitzgerald , think again. Once you start reading, it will be hard to put down."-- Detroit Marine Historian "Schumacher has arranged the testimony so that it reads like a well organized and engrossing narrative and culminates with the report of the two boards and a Lake Carriers' Association Letter of Dissent."-- Michigan in Books "A definitive account of a tragic story that has made its way into Canadian folklore."-- Literary Review of Canada, "Thanks to The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, readers are privy to the thoughts of crew members of other ships, not to mention ship designers, inspectors, naval engineers and search & rescue personnel, all of whom provided their perspective to investigators in the wake of the accident."-- Failure Magazine "If you think you have read everything there is that's worth reading on the Fitzgerald , think again. Once you start reading, it will be hard to put down."-- Detroit Marine Historian, "Thanks to The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, readers are privy to the thoughts of crew members of other ships, not to mention ship designers, inspectors, naval engineers and search rescue personnel, all of whom provided their perspective to investigators in the wake of the accident."-- Failure Magazine "If you think you have read everything there is that's worth reading on the Fitzgerald , think again. Once you start reading, it will be hard to put down."-- Detroit Marine Historian "Schumacher has arranged the testimony so that it reads like a well organized and engrossing narrative and culminates with the report of the two boards and a Lake Carriers' Association Letter of Dissent."-- Michigan in Books "A definitive account of a tragic story that has made its way into Canadian folklore."-- Literary Review of Canada, "This was a very eye-opening read. Among the many hundreds of Great Lakes maritime books, I am not aware of any writers using the words of witnesses and participants in such a significant way. Michael Schumacher did an amazing job culling through all the testimony and then organizing and presenting the words of others in an understandable fashion with enough of his own interjection to link the testimony together. And it is ingenious how he encourages and then provides the readers with just the right amount of key testimony to be able to serve as juror and make their own determination of what caused this massive ship to sink. Well done!"--Valerie van Heest, maritime historian and author
Synopsis
A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard's official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great Lakes history. It is also one of maritime lore's great mysteries, the details of its disappearance as obscure now as on that fateful November day in 1975. The investigation into the wreck, resulting in a controversial final report, generated more than 3,000 pages of documentation, a mere fraction of which has been made available to the public. In The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Michael Schumacher mines this rich resource to produce the first-ever documentary account, a companion to his popular narrative Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. In the words of search and rescue personnel, ship designers and inspectors, scientists and naval engineers, former crewmen of the Fitz and the Arthur M. Anderson (the nearby ore carrier that captured the damaged vessel's last communications), The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald recreates the doomed ore boat's final minutes, the suspense of the search and rescue operations, and the drama of the subsequent Coast Guard inquiry. From the Anderson 's captain and first mate we hear reports of the Fitzgerald taking on water in the fierce storm near Michipicoten and Caribou Islands, losing its radar, and stating, finally, famously, "We are holding our own." We follow the investigation, the speculation, and expert testimony to a problematic conclusion--countered by an alternate theory that the Anderson 's captain maintained to his dying day. By declaring the Edmund Fitzgerald an official gravesite, Canada closed the wreck to further exploration. But here the exploration continues, providing a unique, and uniquely enlightening, perspective on this unforgettable episode in America's maritime history., Drawing on thousands of never-before-seen pages of expert testimony, this book retraces the loss of Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on the Lake Superior in November 1975. The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great Lakes history. It is also one of maritime lore's great mysteries, the details of its disappearance as obscure now as on that fateful November day in 1975. The investigation into the wreck, resulting in a controversial final report, generated more than 3,000 pages of documentation, a mere fraction of which has been made available to the public. In the words of search and rescue personnel, ship designers and inspectors, scientists and naval engineers, former crewmen of the Fitz and the Arthur M. Anderson (the nearby ore carrier that captured the damaged vessel's last communications), this book recreates the doomed ore boat's final minutes, the suspense of the search and rescue operations, and the drama of the subsequent Coast Guard inquiry. We follow the investigation, the speculation, and expert testimony to a problematic conclusion-countered by an alternate theory that the Anderson's captain maintained to his dying day. By declaring the Edmund Fitzgerald an official gravesite, Canada closed the wreck to further exploration. But here the exploration continues, providing a unique, and uniquely enlightening, perspective on this unforgettable episode in America's maritime history.
LC Classification Number
KF228.E372S38 2019
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