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Release Year: 2008

ISBN: 9780760332436

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Publisher

Quarto Publishing Group USA

ISBN-10

0760332436

ISBN-13

9780760332436

eBay Product ID (ePID)

65663372

Product Key Features

Book Title

So Terrible a Storm : a Tale of Fury on Lake Superior

Number of Pages

320 Pages

Language

English

Publication Year

2008

Topic

Weather, General, Ships & Shipbuilding / History

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Nature, Transportation

Author

Curt Brown

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height

1.1 in

Item Weight

21.5 Oz

Item Length

9.3 in

Item Width

6.2 in

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LCCN

2008-000832

Reviews

"Brown's book makes a necessary addition to any Boat Nerd's shelf, with many seldom-seen photographs. It also provides great reading for anyone who spends time traveling up and down the shoreline of our own vast unsalted sea."- Star Tribune, â€œBrown's book makes a necessary addition to any Boat Nerd's shelf, with many seldom-seen photographs. It also provides great reading for anyone who spends time traveling up and down the shoreline of our own vast unsalted sea.â€� - Star Tribune, "Brown's book makes a necessary addition to any Boat Nerd's shelf, with many seldom-seen photographs. It also provides great reading for anyone who spends time traveling up and down the shoreline of our own vast unsalted sea." - Star Tribune, Not since Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm has a writer captured so well the fury of the seas as Curt Brown. -- The Maritime Executive, Not since Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm has a writer captured so well the fury of the seas as Curt Brown. -- The Maritime Executive, Not since Sebastian Junger inThe Perfect Stormhas a writer captured so well the fury of the seas as Curt Brown. -- The Maritime Executive, "Brown's book makes a necessary addition to any Boat Nerd's shelf, with many seldom-seen photographs. It also provides great reading for anyone who spends time traveling up and down the shoreline of our own vast unsalted sea." - Star Tribune

Dewey Edition

Dewey Decimal

917.74/90441

Synopsis

It was Thanksgiving 1905 and thirty-one ships were on Lake Superior, making the season's last, daring run--a run old salts had warned against, but to no avail against the shipping companies' demands. What none of the sailors knew until it was far too late was that they would soon face the worst storm ever to hit the Great Lake, a storm that nearly half of their number would not survive. This is the story of that fateful storm, and of one of the worst shipping disasters in the nation's history. As the storm strikes without warning, readers are taken aboard the SS Mataafa as it crashes into Duluth's piers, half of the crew freezing to death overnight as the other half survives by dancing through the dark around bathtubs set ablaze with scuttled pieces of the ship--all while 10,000 Duluthians set bonfires on shore to guide ships to safety. Next we find ourselves aboard the SS Ira H. Owen , crashing into the cliff where Split Rock Lighthouse would later be built, too late for these men. And here too are the many ships, from Canadian shores to Michigan, where all hands were lost. It is a story drawn from the accounts of witnesses and survivors. It is a tale of people pitted against the elements, of a disaster so extreme that, in its wake, weather forecasting, shipbuilding, and compass-reading in light of the Iron Range's magnetism were forever changed., A gripping narrative account of the worst storm ever to hit Lake Superior and its terrible toll, one of the greatest shipping disasters in the nation's history., It was Thanksgiving 1905 and thirty-one ships were on Lake Superior, making the season's last, daring run--a run old salts had warned against, but to no avail against the shipping companies' demands. What none of the sailors knew until it was far too late was that they would soon face the worst storm ever to hit the Great Lake, a storm that nearly half of their number would not survive. This is the story of that fateful storm, and of one of the worst shipping disasters in the nation's history. As the storm strikes without warning, readers are taken aboard the SS Mataafa as it crashes into Duluth's piers, half of the crew freezing to death overnight as the other half survives by dancing through the dark around bathtubs set ablaze with scuttled pieces of the ship--all while 10,000 Duluthians set bonfires on shore to guide ships to safety. Next we find ourselves aboard the SS Ira H. Owen, crashing into the cliff where Split Rock Lighthouse would later be built, too late for these men. And here too are the many ships, from Canadian shores to Michigan, where all hands were lost. It is a story drawn from the accounts of witnesses and survivors. It is a tale of people pitted against the elements, of a disaster so extreme that, in its wake, weather forecasting, shipbuilding, and compass-reading in light of the Iron Range's magnetism were forever changed.

LC Classification Number

G525.B8573 2008

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