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Since 1988, Lynx Images has been creating books and films that help deepen appreciation of this country's history. For several years we have focused on the Great Lakes, travelling extensively by boat, car, and airplane. Our books and films are intended to enliven your explorations, whether by road or by water. Included in this catalogue are other quality Great Lakes books not published by Lynx Images. Thank you for your input and support--revenue goes directly toward future history projects.
Mysterious Islands: Forgotten Tales of the Great Lakes
Andrea Gutsche, Cindy Bisaillon
Lynx Images Inc.
- 300-page book & 72-minute video
- An island ruled by a king who declared it his own country, an island used as a hideout by a notorious pirate, an island mined by pre-historic copper miners... these are only a few of the stories in this remarkable collection. The book and film, Mysterious Islands, is a fascinating historical journey to islands in the vast basin of the five Great Lakes. Standing removed and alone, islands have been central to some of the most important, outrageous and tragic events in Great Lakes history, from a decisive and bloody naval battle in the War of 1812, to Prohibition rumrunning, to harrowing tales of shipwreck and rescue. The waves of time have left many islands behind, but remnants of the past still mark their shores- burial grounds, grand hotels, abandoned quarries, lighthouses, strategic forts, and even a castle. Indispensable for boaters, this guide book is brimming with stories of island names, shipwrecks, abandonded places, folklore and intrigue.
296pp. photos & illus. sc 1999
book and video package $49.95
book $24.95 and video $29.95
 How to order To Read about some of the intriguing stories featured in Islands
- The 100 Best Great Lakes Shipwrecks: Volume II
By Cris Kohl
- Volume II reveals the dramatic and often incredible and tragic stories behind 49 shipwrecks in Lakes Michigan and Superior and includes appendices on the most hunted shipwrecks, shipwrecks in parks and preserves and more Great Lakes shipwrecks. 284 pages with 75 colour images, maps and drawings and 57 archival photographs - $29.95
$29.95
Favorite Wildflowers of the Great Lakes and Northeastern U.S.
By John Gillette
An indispensable guide to appreciating the natural world around your home. Every flower has its own full-colour plate and description to help with identification. The natural history of the plant, and planting information are explored.
217 pages with 100+ colour illustrations $24.95
Great Lakes Lighthouses: American and Canadian Great Lakes
A Comprehensive Directory and Guide
By Wes Oleszewski
Great Lakes Lighthouses is a useful guide to these historic aids to navigation
202 pages with b/w photos $24.95
Handy Harbor Guide: The Bays and Waterways of the Great Lakes
By Bruce Jenvey
The perfect companion for cruising Great Lakes harbours by boat or by car. Includes every harbour visited by the staff of Great Lakes Cruiser magazine. Takes you to all five of the Great Lakes plus Lake St. Clair, the Trent-Severn Waterway, and the Erie Canal. Convenient listings of harbours, navigational aids, transient dockage, places to eat and stay, and highlights of interesting sights.
233 pages with maps and illustrations $24.95
Haunted Lakes: Great Lakes Ghost Stories, Superstitions and Sea Serpents
By Frederick Stonehouse
This book contains never-before-told stories from the U.S. and Canada. Possessed lighthouses and tragedies that have kept troubled souls walking the corridors... ghostly captains signalling their home port from vessels long gone... sea monsters that appear before the most trusted sailors of the Great Lakes. Noted historian and award-winning author Frederick Stonehouse spent years researching reports of the odd and ghostly accounts throughout all the Great Lakes.
200 pages with illustrations $21.95
Haunted Lakes II: More Great Lakes Tales
By Frederick Stonehouse
In 1997, the book Haunted Lakes investigated the superstitions and stories that are a part of the lore of the Great Lakes. From ghosts on ships and in lighthouses to sea serpents and underwater ghosts, this work of "non-fiction" became the quintessential reader for good Great Lakes stories. Now, Frederick Stonehouse (author of 15 books on Greats Lakes maritime history) presents another fine collection of these stories from the people who really believe them. The perfect companion to the first book and soon to become a classic.
204 pages, 54 illustrations, $22.95
Legendary Lighthouses
PBS: Three Tapes, 120 minutes each
Three stunning documentary videos examine lighthouses of the North Atlantic, Maine, California, South Atlantic, Pacific Northwest and the Western Great Lakes. This series offers the viewer an up close opportunity to rediscover the romance and the history of these fabled structures
California and Pacific Northwest
VHS LL01-$29.95
North Atlantic and Mainer
VHS LL02 $29.95
Western Great Lakes & S. Atlantic
VHS LL03 $29.95
Boxed Set of 3 videos LL04 - $89.95 VHS
Shipwreck of the Mesquite
By Frederick Stonehouse
he 180-foot cutter Mesquite goes aground on Michigan's treacherous Keweenaw Point and the subsequent investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard changes the rules on training and handling dangerous operations in the Great Lakes.
112 pages with b/w and colour photos $21.95
TITANIC: The Great Lakes Connections
By Cris Kohl
Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship in the world sailed on her maiden voyage in April of 1912. But, her Atlanitc crossing was never completed: Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with enormous loss of life. The worst maritime disaster the world had ever known.
More than 300 of the 1,500 passengers were ultimately bound for the Great Lakes region including the province of Ontario. Some of these passengers were en route home; others were hoping to settle in a new land. Some survived the world's most famous sinking; others died without reaching their goals. This book tells their stories.
220 pages, over 100 black & white photographs, $24.95
Traveller's Guide to Western Great Lakes Lighthouses
By Penrose Family
Includes a map, directions, description and photo for every lighthouse on the Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin coastline of lake Michigan; the Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario coastline of Lake Superior; and the Ontario shore of Lake Huron.
164 pages $21.95
Women and the Lakes: Untold Great Lakes Maritime Tales
By Frederick Stonehouse
Features exciting stories of some of the remarkable women who have worked in the Great Lakes maritime trade. Includes untold tales of storms, fogs, sickness and rescue, and the heroic women who should be an inspiration to anyone who enjoys Great Lakes history.
187 pages $23.95
Wreck Ashore:
The United States Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes
By Frederick Stonehouse
From the mid-1780s until it transformed into the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915, the U.S. Life-Saving Service was responsible for the safety of the seas. By detailing the Great Lakes exploits of this dedicated agency of the government, this book fills a void in the annals of history. From stormy shipwrecks to catastrophic disasters, the lifesavers were always there. An important addition to the Great Lakes record.
224 pages with b/w photos $36.95
Wrecks and Rescues of the Great Lakes
By James Barry
Through stories presented in a personal manner, Barry reveals the human drama of shipping disasters and rescues on the Great Lakes. Included are the sad fates of great sailing ships, steamboats, side-wheelers, and modern freighters which perished by fire, collision, ice and storm. Some, like the Manistee, sailed into history, never to be seen again. Other disasters, like the capsizing of the Eastland at a Chicago dock, the wreck of the liner Huronic, and that of the Edmund Fitzgerald, illustrate the power of the Great Lakes and the frailty of the vessels that sailed them. Handsomely illustrated with 149 black-and-white photographs, this book belongs in everyone's library of maritime history.
117 pages, 149 archival photographs, $29.95
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