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From: baillod
Category: Shipwreck Research
Date: 22 Dec 2007
Time: 04:58:09
Remote Name: 71.98.19.210
Mike Spears has published an excellent new book on an under-researched area of Great Lakes Maritime History. He has taken all the marine news from the Detroit papers from 1836/37 and excerpted them into a wonderful book with period illustrations. This book represents the only published source for information about this early period of Lake history and shows nearly all the vessels that traveled the western Lakes in the is period. The book is well worth having for anyone interested in the earliest period of commercial navigation on the Lakes. A copy is available on ebay at http://cgi.ebay.com/Detroit-Marine-News-1836-1837_W0QQitemZ300184172406QQihZ020QQcategoryZ378QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It can also be obtained from Mike directly:
To order this 8-1/2x11 168-page soft cover book, please send a check or money order payable to Seajay Publications for $24.95 plus $6 shipping for a total of $30.95. Michigan residents please add 6% sales tax of $1.50 for a total of $32.45, and send to Seajay Publications, PO Box 23016, Dearborn MI 48123. If you have any questions regarding this book, please contact the author Mike Spears at the address above, or email him at mjspears@sbcglobal.net, or call 313-690-3949.