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"Curwood...helped create a vision of enduring, enterprising, imaginative, and patient Great Lakes sailor." -Sailing into History: Great Lakes Bulk Carriers (2017)"A popular writer...his important work is focused on Great Lakes freighters...met dockworkers, sailors, and ship captains...frequent travel on freighters between Detroit and Thunder Bay." -Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes (2001)"A world-famous author." -Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Region (2001)This profusely illustrated nonfiction book, as entertaining as it is informing, has the twofold advantage of being written by a man who knew the Lakes and their shores as well as what has been written about them. Curwood's purpose in writing this history of the Great Lakes was "to tell of the people and of the picturesque life of the Great Lakes, and to set before my readers actual facts about the cities, the commerce, and the future of the greatest fresh-water seas in the world." The general reader will enjoy the adventure attaching to the past history of the Lakes, the story of the great commercial fleets that ploughed our inland seas, created to transport the fruits of the earth and the metals that are dug from the earth. Curwood also focuses on "the human side, the romance and the tragedy that have played their thrilling parts upon these waters; the wonders of their progress; the story of their ships, their men, their wars, for of all the pages in the history of the North American continent none are more thrilling, or more filled with the romantic and the picturesque, than those which tell the story of our fresh-water seas."About the author: James Oliver "Jim" Curwood (1878 – 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, according to Publishers Weekly. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid (per word) author in the world
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- Title: The Great Lakes: The Vessels that Plough Them, Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes : Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas (1909)
- Author : James Oliver Curwood
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