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Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries
by Brown, Grant | PB | Good
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Book Title
- Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780472050499
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10
0472050494
ISBN-13
9780472050499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65898395
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Publication Name
Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan : the History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries
Language
English
Subject
United States / State & Local / General, Railroads / History, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, North America
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-015003
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
386/.609774
Synopsis
An illustrated book about the visionary, risky, and influential business of transporting loaded railroad cars across Lake Michigan, "A must buy for anyone interested in the Great Lakes." ---Frederick Stonehouse, maritime historian In 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shook the transportation world by doing what was then deemed impossible---carrying loaded railroad cars by ship across the sixty-two miles of open water between Frankfort, Michigan and Kewaunee, Wisconsin. With passion, acuity, and remarkable detail, Grant Brown describes the nearly 100-year crossings---from their beginnings with James Ashley's bold new idea of car ferrying down to the last fight for survival until the Michigan Interstate Rail Company finally closed in 1982. Crossing the lake with loaded freight cars was a treacherous task that presented daily obstacles. Knowledgeable people believed it was impossible to secure rail cars from tipping over and sinking the ship. Weather and ice presented two near-insurmountable hurdles, making car ferrying doubly difficult in the winter when nearly all shipping on the Great Lakes shut down. This vivid history gives voice to the ships and their crews as they battled the storms without modern navigational aids or adequate power. This spirited account of the Ann Arbor car ferries draws on ships' logs from various museums, over 2,000 newspaper articles, annual reports from 1889 through 1976, and interviews with former employees. The result is a living history of the ships, the crews, and their adventures; of the men who built and ran the business; and of the enormous influence the vessels had on the communities they served. Grant Brown, Jr., worked for S.D. Warren Company, a paper manufacturer, for 37 years. He raced sailboats on Crystal Lake in northern Michigan for ten years while growing up, continued in Boston and St. Louis, and has since returned to living and racing in Frankfort, Michigan. He spent eight years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, where he learned navigation and shipboard procedure.
LC Classification Number
HE5778.B76 2008
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