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The River
A Memoir of Life in the Border Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
"Ask anyone what they love most about Winzer, and they seem always to tell you it's the people, the family and friends webbed around each of us. True. But for me the town is also, and perhaps mainly, the larger-than-life characters who ghost around in my imagination and my memory: rumrunners...
From Ocean Liner to Cruise Ship
The Marine Art of Harley Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Harley Crossley paints for the major shipping lines, with his work adorning many cruise ships. His artwork is the signature painting of Queen Victoria, the new Cunarder, due December 2010. Author available for signings and demonstrations. Harley Crossley is one of Britain's foremost marine artists...
by Phil Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Trailerama provides a visual wonderland filled with fascinating and diverse imagery that will surprise the average reader. From sheet music to greeting cards, postcards to Hollywood, the travel trailer is put on grand display in this kitschy celebration culled from the coffers of Trailer Travel’s Phil Noyes.
by Jon Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
*Cyclogeography *is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle...
Words to Ride By
Thoughts on Bicycling
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Notable luminaries throughout history have been inspired and humbled by the simple joy of riding a bicycle. For centuries, this powerful connection between people and bikes has driven humans forward as inventors, travelers, and thinkers. From Susan B. Anthony and Mark Twain to Eddy Merckx and Greg...
Fire Canoe
Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.
Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie...
So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
"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 Through masterful research and elegant prose, Curt Brown traces the devastating intersection of nature's fury and corporate greed. It was Thanksgiving...
Alligators of the North
The Story of the West & Peachey Steam Warping Tugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s. This warping tug was capable of towing al og boomk across a lake and then portaging itself to the next body of water. Steam-powered and rugged, it was one of the pioneers in the mechanization of the forest industry...
November's Fury
The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Anson Northup, the first steamboat on the Canadian prairies, arrived in Fort Garry in 1859. Belching hot sparks and growling in fury, it was called "fire canoe" by the local Cree. The first steam-powered passenger vessel in Canada had begun service on the St. Lawrence River in 1809, and...
by George W. Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
There was a time in the United States when railroad tunnels and bridges were only dreams in the minds of designers, when the best way to move railroad cars across bodies of water was to load them on specialized ships designed specifically for this purpose.
With this utilitarian principle in...
The Frances Smith
Palace Steamer of the Upper Great Lakes, 1867-1896
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2005
The Frances Smith was not only the first steamboat to be built in Owen Sound, but also the largest vessel on Georgian Bay at that time. By far the most luxurious vessel to sail the Upper Great Lakes from a Canadian port, she was known as a "palace steamer." In the mid-to-late-19th century,...
by Matt Starman, Tim Stricker
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The city of Yreka was determined to have a railroad. When the Southern Pacific Railroad decided in 1883 to bypass Yreka, the citizens constructed their own railroad known as the Yreka Railroad Company. This railroad managed to eke out a living over the next few decades. In the 1930s, the railroad was...
Ship Captain's Daughter
Growing Up on the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Ann Lewis's childhood was marked by an unusual rhythm. Each year the thawing and freezing of the Great Lakes signaled the beginning and end of the shipping season, months of waiting that were punctuated by brief trips to various ports to meet her father, the captain.
With lively storytelling...