Download or read book Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Download or read book Transportation in the Great Lakes Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lakes Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lakes Transportation System written by Eric Schenker and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program. This book was released on 1976 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improved Operation Maintenance and Financing of the Nation s Water Transportation System Including Coastal and Great Lakes Ports the St Lawrence Seaway and the Inland and Intracoastal Waterways written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 2704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Strategy for the Marine Transportation System written by United States. Department of Transportation. Committee on the Marine Transportation System and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation a Continental System written by Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association and published by [Duluth, Minn.?] : The Association. This book was released on 1921 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Wars written by Peter Annin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Connecting Channels written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1995 Status of the Nation s Surface Transportation System Condition and Performance Report to Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study of Domestic Land and Water Transportation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Transportation Policies Through the Year 2000 written by National Transportation Policy Study Commission and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Transportation Policies Through the Year 2000 written by USA. National Transportation Policy Study Commission and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man and the Marine Environment written by Robert A. Ragotzkie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine recreation represents one of the most important uses of our marine and coastal environments.This is a natural result of three things; population density in coastal areas, increasing interest in outdoor recreation, and the special lure of the sea.What the poet may think of as the lure of the sea, today‘s recreation planner would consider a combination of resource-directed and image-directed desires.
Download or read book Working Together to Shape Wisconsin s Future Transportation System written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
