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Mysteries and Histories: Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

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I throughly enjoyed this book. I have read several of this authors books and found them very hard to put down. He is good at finding the research and information about each of the boats he is writing about. I am looking forward to reading more of the books he has written. Great Book for anyone interested in the ship wrecks of the Great Lakes.

While researching a local shipwreck I found that Wes Oleszewski had already done all the work for me. This book is full of well-researched and well written stories about the men and the ships who were lost on the Great Lakes. Wes goes beyond the facts of the tragedy to get to the real stories -- the lives of the people who were lost. Wes' series is a must have for all serious Great Lakes shipwreck researchers.

I enjoyed the book and it was very informative. It really shed some light on wrecks in the Great Lakes.Mysteries and Histories: Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes I am going to order other books on shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.

I have no doubt that this book was well researched however it lacks feeling. It may be the nature of the book that causes this, as there is no real tale to tell unless there are survivors. Most of these disasters had no one left to spin the yarn of what occurred.

The Author is just trying to impress us with a long list of those lost. However it is the worst narrative ever written about Great Lakes Shipwrecks. I am glad that I Purchased it used.
Greg Knott