Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss

＂Along Lake Michigan charts the course of shipping disasters great and small on Lake Michigan, home to more shipwrecks than the other four Great Lakes combined. Surveying the wreckage throughout the decades, Michael Schumacher illuminates the details of maritime weather and shipcraft, the lives devoted to and lost on the water, and the mistakes and monumental failures that led to these ships’ watery ends＂-- Provided by publisher.

Michael Schumacher is the author of several books on Great Lakes shipwrecks, including Mighty Fitz, November’s Fury, Torn in Two, and The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald (all from Minnesota). He has written narratives for twenty-five Great Lakes shipwreck and lighthouse documentary films. He lives in Wisconsin close to the shores of Lake Michigan.