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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 623 EAN: 9781892384331 ISBN: 1892384337 Label: Avery Color Studios Manufacturer: Avery Color Studios Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 277 Publication Date: April 30, 2006 Publisher: Avery Color Studios Studio: Avery Color Studios Sales Rank: 230479 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - FitzgeraldGreat book. If you have any intrest in this subject you will not be disapointed. Gives many facts to support the mythes that are out there. Rating:  - HauntingThis was a great read! Very sad, haunting story, yet very interesting and factual. Rating: - The Legend Lives On!I remember hearing about the Fitzgerald when I was a kid going through the Soo Locks tour and was always curious about the details. This book does a good job reveiwing the loss of the Fitzgerald and provides a lot of info on the possible causes for the wreckage. To this day there's no single concrete explantion for why it went down. While the author has a definite opinion on what most likely happened he does a good presenting all the possible theories and suggesting why they do or do not make ... Read More Rating:  - A Thorough Review of The CaseI found much of this "Casebook," as I see it very illuminating, with regard to the sinking of the Fitzgerald. What I liked were the text reports from the Coast Guard and the Lake Carriers Association, along with the statistics and other official information. This goes a long way toward fitting in with what Stonehouse writes, in terms of his own experience as a diver. The interview excerpts were also interesting, with some questions that needed to be asked. While ... Read More Rating: - Stonehouse has a serious beef with the Coast Guard.Others have called this the "definitive account" of the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking, and it certainly is comprehensive. Stonehouse takes all the facts as they are known and lays them out for the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. He also (and this is highly commendable) includes the actual texts of the various documents pertaining to the sinking, along with pictures, sketches and diagrams, to give the reader as much of the evidence as possible. However in the section entitled "A ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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