Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes /
The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first saili...
Auteur principal: | Thompson, Mark L., 1945- (Auteur) |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2017.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
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