Steaming Through Smoke and Fire, 1871: True Stories of Shipwreck and Disaster on the Great Lakes Review

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(More customer reviews)" Steaming Through Smoke and Fire; True tales of Shipwreck and Disaster on the Great Lakes" is a good book' Though sometimes it makes me feel a bit disgusted when it tells about flying flesh, and sad when the Captain's pet terrier goes down with the ship. As you can see I am a dog lover. All in all I give it 4 stars. A star taken away for some gore and sadness, the Terrier

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Great Lakes historian James L. Donahue gives readers a rare and exciting glimpse of life on the Great Lakes in the fateful year of 1871. But it is much more than just a collection of stories about the vessels that were lost between Duluth and Quebec and from Oswego to Chicago. The stories in this book take a slice out of Great Lakes history and paint a broad view of what was happening during the dynamic years after the Civil War. The stories are true accounts about the hundreds of disasters and near-disasters that happened in just one year. They also look into the way politics of the period affected shipping, the lumber empire and the opening of a way for larger ships and heavier cargos. Steaming Through Smoke and Fire examines the living conditions - and unfortunately, the dying conditions - of the sailors. Read about the true adventure and drama of the Great Lakes: The terror of a night fire at sea aboard the burning propeller J. Barber on Lake Michigan!The strange curse on the hoodoo ship Maine which burned three times, sank once, and then blew up!Dare to step aboard the doomed tugboat B. B. Jones before it blew itself to atoms at Port Huron!