Download or read book Great Lakes Pirate written by Gavin Schmitt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for its many natural wonders, Lake Michigan also claims the odd and dubious honor as the home and stomping grounds of "Roaring" Dan Seavey, alleged to be the only pirate arrested on the Great Lakes. Aboard his ship, the Wanderer, Seavey's life at sea (or at lake) entangled him in all kinds of misadventures. The wanton sailor roamed to the wilds of Alaska, engaged in a brisk chase with the Coast Guard and survived a raging inferno--and those are just the stories that can be confirmed. Legends of drunken brawls and grave robbing continue to follow Roaring Dan long after his death. Author Gavin Schmitt leads readers on a journey with one of Lake Michigan's most notorious sailors.
Download or read book Pirates of the Great Lakes written by Greg Haggart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argh! Go on sailing adventures and explore the true stories of real Great Lakes pirates that pillaged, robed, murdered, and found treasure. Rob the French fur trade during the French & Indian War. Discover the legend of a real pirate king. Raid Great Lakes areas with confederates and wave the stars & bars. This 65 page book details the tales of over 10 pirate legends on the Great Lakes. Equiped with graphics, maps of their voyages, portraits and historical stories.
Download or read book A Pirate Roams Lake Michigan written by Richard Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Pirates A Coloring Book for Pirates written by Cher Charest and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coloring book takes a fun peek into a little history of actual pirates that sailed the Great Lakes. Takes pleasure in exploring what a good pirates life may be in today's water. Do all the exciting things a pirate might do. Dig up treasure, draw your own map, create your coin, scout the land, walk the plank, even make sand angels. Learn pirate lingo so ye can talk like one too! Over 50 illustrations, printed single sided. Fun for all ages and artistic levels. Yar be pirates in that thar waters of de Great Lakes, could ye be one?!
Download or read book Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures Great Lakes written by Michael Varhola and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one riveting stories and illustrations about ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes, such as: British gunboat H.M.S. Speedy in 1804, American Navy brig U.S.S. Niagara in 1820, Civil War steamer Island Queen in 1864, the infamous freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, and many more!
Download or read book Pirates of the Great Lakes written by Chips Ely and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a group of seasoned military veterans as they ply the waters of the Great Lakes. Men and women serving side-by-side to thwart foreign plots. little did they know their lives were about to forever change. Because their future would also include one of the special ops team being sworn back into the CIA to head up a multi-country undercover operation of special ops to halt a rogue dirty bomb plot on US soil. Complicating their lives, even more, the team would become the target of cryptic assassination attempts while protecting the discovery of the most powerful lithium-Ion battery formula that could power an electric car for over 1,500 hours. However, the valuable LithX cargo that was being transported by a Great Lakes m/v (motor vessel) was targeted by rogue pirates who commandeered the precious LithX load. That's when the Maritime Special Purpose Force (MSPF) was tasked to lead a successful ship boarding to retake the pirate-seized Great Lakes freighter.
Download or read book Lords of the Sea written by Peter D. Shapinsky and published by Michigan Monograph Series in J. This book was released on 2014 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lords of the Sea revises our understanding of the epochal political, economic, and cultural transformations of Japan's late medieval period (1300-1600) by shifting the conventional land-based analytical framework to one centered on the perspectives of seafarers usually dismissed as 'pirates'"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Pirate s Guide to Lake St Clair Surrounding Waters written by Bill Bradley and published by M A K O Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Boating Guide book on Lake St. Clair and Surrounding Waters.
Download or read book Writing Pirates written by Yuanfei Wang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines writings on China's oceanic piracy wars of the sixteenth century
Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Download or read book Pirate of the Pine Lands written by Karl Detzer and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Living Great Lakes written by Jerry Dennis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.
Download or read book Tin Stackers written by Al Miller and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tin Stackers tells its story of the role of the U.S. Steel Corporation's largest commercial fleet.
Download or read book The Last Pirate of New York written by Rich Cohen and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was he New York City’s last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by dock—for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire. “History at its best . . . I highly recommend this remarkable book.”—Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known in the dive bars and gin joints of the Five Points, the most dangerous neighborhood in maritime Manhattan. For years, he operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime, working on the water in ships, sleeping in the nickel-a-night flops, drinking in barrooms where rat-baiting and bear-baiting were great entertainments. His criminal career reached its peak in 1860, when he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was to rob the ship and flee, disappearing into the teeming streets of lower Manhattan, as he’d done numerous times before, eventually finding his way back to his nearsighted Irish immigrant wife (who, like him, had been disowned by her family) and their infant son. But the plan went awry—the ship was found listing and unmanned in the foggy straits of Coney Island—and the voyage that was to enrich him instead led to his last desperate flight. Long fascinated by gangster legends, Rich Cohen tells the story of this notorious underworld figure, from his humble origins to the wild, globe-crossing, bacchanalian crime spree that forged his ruthlessness and his reputation, to his ultimate incarnation as a demon who terrorized lower Manhattan, at a time when pirates anchored off 14th Street. Advance praise for The Last Pirate of New York “A remarkable work of scholarship about old New York, combined with a skillfully told, edge-of-your-seat adventure story—I could not put it down.”—Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia “With its wise and erudite storytelling, Rich Cohen’s The Last Pirate of New York takes the reader on an exciting nonfiction narrative journey that transforms a grisly nineteenth-century murder into a shrewd portent of modern life. Totally unique, totally compelling, I enjoyed every page.”—Howard Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Gangland and American Lightning
Download or read book The Scourge of Captain Seavey written by Karl Manke and published by Alexander Books. This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is pre-1900. Commerce on the Great Lakes is young. These waterways are proving to be as wild and untamed as the Western Frontier. The law is all but absent in these nearly 100,000 square miles of open waters. This ambiguity spans the making of many a legendary pirate. Most of these marauders are long dead before they can be brought to the hangman's noose. The most chronicled of these freewheeling buccaneers is the infamous Captain Dan Seavey. At nearly six foot six and we3ighing almost 300 pounds, this "larger-than-life character emerges. His many notorious escapes feeds the appetites of hungry journalists hanging on his every shenanigan. Being the only brigand in the history of the Great Lakes to be charged with piracy, Captain Seavey manages to beat the Federal Marshals at their own game.
Download or read book All about the Great Lakes written by Maureen Dunphy and published by All About...People. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What do the ice ages, The Anishinaabe people, "New France," and freshwater shipwrecks and pirates all have in common? The Great Lakes! The chain of lakes, that mostly runs along the U.S.-Canadian border, includes Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Read about the fascinating Petoskey stones, pieces of fossilized coral formed in the prehistoric sea. Join pirate captain "Roaring" Dan Seavey as he tricks ships into crashing on rocks, so he can steal their cargo. Follow the Ojibwe on their Seven Fires Migration that ends when they find manoomin (wild rice) near what is now Madeline Island. Where did the Great Lakes come from? What is happening to them now? Learn all this as well as how you can help the Great Lakes in the future!"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Ghosts of the Great Lakes written by Megan Long and published by Thunder Bay Press Michigan. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes have a colorful past that spans hundreds of years, stretches over thousands of miles... and sometimes crosses into the spirit world. Ghosts of the Great Lakes takes readers from the far eastern shores of Lake Ontario to western Lake Superior, revealing haunting and strange tales. These whispers from the other side, however, are based in history and fact. One lighthouse site hides the bones of a murdered keeper. Rapping sounds in a family home mark the beginning of the Spiritualist movement in North America. A bride has a premonition that her honeymoon ride will end in death... and soon after, the steamer she was on vanishes. Repeated sightings of ghost ships. Can these strange phenomena be attributed to the imagination? How can multiple sightings be explained away as mere tricks of light and fog? Read these historical accounts of the Great Lakes' most fascinating ghost stories and judge for yourself--are they more than mere legend? Where does fact end... and folklore begin?
