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Summary: "A Rating By Gregg"
Review: I am an avid student of the "Edmund Fitzgerald", Great Lakes shipwrecks and Great Lakes lighthouses. I have studied the "Edmund Fitzgerald" for several years and have attended ceremonies, held each year on the anniversary of the sinking of the "Edmund Fitzgerald", at the Split Rock Lighthouse in Minnesota. I have read several books about the shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, as well as many books about the sinking of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald'. Also, I have visited exhibitions in Duluth, MN and White Fish Point, Michigan. The 'Edmund Fitzgerald' is a passion of mine and I strongly & wholeheartedly recommend "Fitzgerald's Storm...The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Dr. Joseph MacInnis. This book will not bore you with endless and insignificant details, but will enthrall you. Dr. MacInnis has written a book suitable for both the casual armchair reader and the serious student. When you read this book you can understand the nightmarish hell that the 'Fitz' and crew went through on that last voyage. You will be able to comprehend the fury of the storm, feel the helplessness of the doomed sailors and experience the grief and emotions of the families the crew left behind. If there is only one book that you will read, about the 'Edmund Fitzgerald', READ THIS ONE! Then, go to White Fish Point, Michigan and visit The Shipwreck Museum. I would rate this book higher than five stars if I could. It is just a good book, that will hold your interest and rivet your attention. Read it!
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Summary: "A Rating By Gregg"
Review: I am an avid student of the "Edmund Fitzgerald", Great Lakes shipwrecks and Great Lakes lighthouses. I have studied the "Edmund Fitzgerald" for several years and have attended ceremonies, held each year on the anniversary of the sinking of the "Edmund Fitzgerald", at the Split Rock Lighthouse in Minnesota. I have read several books about the shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, as well as many books about the sinking of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald'. Also, I have visited exhibitions in Duluth, MN and White Fish Point, Michigan. The 'Edmund Fitzgerald' is a passion of mine and I strongly & wholeheartedly recommend "Fitzgerald's Storm...The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Dr. Joseph MacInnis. This book will not bore you with endless and insignificant details, but will enthrall you. Dr. MacInnis has written a book suitable for both the casual armchair reader and the serious student. When you read this book you can understand the nightmarish hell that the 'Fitz' and crew went through on that last voyage. You will be able to comprehend the fury of the storm, feel the helplessness of the doomed sailors and experience the grief and emotions of the families the crew left behind. If there is only one book that you will read, about the 'Edmund Fitzgerald', READ THIS ONE! Then, go to White Fish Point, Michigan and visit The Shipwreck Museum. I would rate this book higher than five stars if I could. It is just a good book, that will hold your interest and rivet your attention. Read it!
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Summary: The loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Review: I read this book in less than a day. It is an interesting history of one of the largest ore freighters and the infamous sinking of this great vessel. MacInnis does a great job of boiling the history and the tragic sinking of this ship down into an easy to read 120 pages. This is great story, and I was surprised that it took so little time to read this book and understand the tragedy of 29 dead men.
This book is a good history of the ship and the brevity of it makes it a quick read. None of the real far fetched accounts (UFOs) for the explanation of the tragedy are included in this book. The details of the two explorers filming the results of the ship on the bottom are also detailed. MacInnis makes them out as quick buck artists working the tragedy for all its worth.
I am less sure about this, but the book is a good read.
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Summary: The loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Review: I read this book in less than a day. It is an interesting history of one of the largest ore freighters and the infamous sinking of this great vessel. MacInnis does a great job of boiling the history and the tragic sinking of this ship down into an easy to read 120 pages. This is great story, and I was surprised that it took so little time to read this book and understand the tragedy of 29 dead men.
This book is a good history of the ship and the brevity of it makes it a quick read. None of the real far fetched accounts (UFOs) for the explanation of the tragedy are included in this book. The details of the two explorers filming the results of the ship on the bottom are also detailed. MacInnis makes them out as quick buck artists working the tragedy for all its worth.
I am less sure about this, but the book is a good read.
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Summary: You can find a better book about the sinking of the Fitz
Review: In November 1975 a storm on Lake Superior ravaged the Edmund Fitzgerald, an "unsinkable" laker, and took the life of more than two dozen men. MacInnis's book seems lost in this same storm -- it jumps here and there and gets caught up in the waves of controversy. Only thirty pages or so deal with the actual sinking. The rest of the book covers the construction of the ship, the aftermath of the sinking, the telling of the families, the investigation, the scabs who harvested the Fitz for cash, and, of course, Gordon Lightfoot's famous song. The book tries to be everything and ends up being little.MacInnis writes in an overwrought style, mixing metaphors and making poor analogies. Still, if it wasn't for his purple prose, the book would have come in far short of its 126 pages. MacInnis obviously has a vendetta against the poachers who salvaged the Fitz. He writes about them with fury, calling them heartless thieves, which they probably are, but he loses objectivity here. Much like the Edmund Fitzgerald on that stormy November night in 1975, MacInnis falls off course and grounds himself on a shoal of confusion.
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Summary: S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald: 29 Sailors Rest In Peace
Review: It was 7:30 PM on November 10, 1975. While we were watching Monday Night Football from the comfort of our homes, 29 sailors were fighting for their lives in a storm on Lake Superior. They were the crew of the ore-carrier S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald and they would eventually lose the battle. Dr. Joseph MacInnis led a 1994 expedition to the wreck and produced a television documentary on the subject. His book is the account of the wreck exploration and also a history of the ship. He tells the complete story from the ship's launching in 1957 to the sinking in 1975 and the search for answers in the 1990s. The primary question was how could a ship sink in the era of modern navigational technology and weather forecasting? This question and many others are examined throughout the book. The ship and crew have been immortalized in a 1976 song by Gordon Lightfoot. Dr. MacInnis uses his book to show the importance of learning from the disaster and keeping the memory alive.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: The author isn't afraid to mince words in this account of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I was particularly happy to see Captain Cooper's theory of how the Fitz sunk given a fair bit of attention and laud. The book is an excellent read whether you are a die-hard Fitz-head or just casually interested in the subject. This book has only one minor shortcoming... the author has an axe to grind and at times lets his personal feelings about the salvage operations take over. Not that I disagreed with him, but... the point was belabored in the book. Nonetheless, I still believe the book is worth every penny and recommend it heartily to anyone who wants to read a well-researched and enthusiastically written book about the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Summary: AND THE BELL RANG TWENTY-NINE TIMES
Review: The fitz wreck happened 1 day after my 10th birthday and because of gordon lightfoot's tribute song i have alwayshad a strong interest about this ship.I have seen lots of documentaries and have books about it. This so far seems to be the most informative. This book gives a pretty good description of the Great Lakes especially Lake Superior background information on the crew and the investigation. The only thing I did not really like was some of the description of the feelings and the things the crew were going thru I felt there may have been a little to much speculation on ths part.But all in all are great book. The one part that always seems to really stay with me that maybe kind of haunting is the phrase from Gordon's song that says does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes t hours
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