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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 I
By Cris Kohl
- A Thrilling book for anyone who enjoys Great Lakes waters: boaters, history buffs, scuba divers, travellers, explorers, beachcombers, real-life and armchair adventurers. Volume 1 uncovers 51 stories of shipwrecks in Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron and includes appendices on vessel types, vessel parts, and deep shipwrecks. This book is a handy reference to the most exciting Great lakes shipwrecks: their histories, their locations and their descriptions.284 pages with 75 colour images, maps and drawings and 49 archival photos
$29.95
Ghostly Lights: Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror
By Annick Hivert-Carthew
Phantom shadows on Lake Ontario... drowning sailors on Lake Superior... mysterious disappearances on Georgian Bay... you'll love these twenty-one spine-tingling tales.
162 page book with illustrations- $21.95
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
Know Your Ships:
Guide to the Boats & Boatwatching on the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway
By Roger Le Fievre
this annual "bible of boat watching" offers complete information about the freighters, tankers, tugs, barges, and other vessels sailing the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. Also included: 10 pages of colourful stack and flag markings of Great Lakes, Seaway, and international fleets, vessel histories. With dozens of superb colour photographs of Great Lakes vessels with illustrations
144 pages, colour photographs, $21.95
Old Forts of the Great Lakes
By James Barry
A fascinating account of the military posts and forts of the Great Lakes from the 1600s to the late 1800s. The book is full of engrossing information about the construction and history of these sentinels in the wilderness around which the historical currents of two fledgling countries swirled. It details the roles the forts played as hubs of trade, military activity, and social life at the edges of empire. Some twenty of these important sites of Great Lakes history can still be seen.
Richly illustrated with photographs, rare drawings, prints and maps.76 pages $29.95
Northern Lights: Lighthouses of Canada
By David Baird
For the very first time, Northern Lights, draws together the story of Canadian lighthouses. The book is filled with Dr. David Baird's striking colour and black and white photographs of the lights from coast to coast, including the Great Lakes. The accompanying text traces the fascinating evolution of the Canadian lights, Canadian technological developments, and fascinating information and stories about the lights and the people who kept them.
257 page book/200 lighthouses/300 b & w and colour photographs - $29.95
Shorelines of the Great Lakes
By F. Erick Carne
Original watercolours highlight this beautiful text about the delights of the five Great Lakes. From Thunder Bay on Lake Superior to Kingston on Lake Ontario over 100 beautiful watercolours and numerous sketches illuminate life along the shorelines: lighthouses, wildlife, historic and natural sites, landmarks, shipping, beaches, fishing and many more familiar scenes. Experience the essence of the beauty and bounty of the Great Lakes.
160 page book $36.95
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
Treacherous Waters: Kingston's Shipwrecks
By Cris Kohl
Kingston, Ontario prides itself in its wide-ranging maritime history including the construction of the largest warships ever employed on the Great Lakes and the tragic loss of the schooner, George A Marsh, which sank just off Kingston in a violent summer storm in 1917, taking 12 of the 14 people on board and how the tragedy continues. These and scores of other stories are told inside the covers of this book.
248 pages with colour photographs of shipwrecks and 100 archival photographs, many maps and drawings - $21.95
Up The Shore: The Lighthouse Years
Written By Juanita Rourke & Edited By Bonnie Rourke
Enter into the intriguing world of lightkeeping on Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. Carried along with the Rourke family readers can share the trials and unqiue delights known only to those who tended the lights. Originally written as a weekly column for the Midland Free Press by one of its most beloved writers, Juanita Rourke, these true stories reflect the life that Juanita and Frank Rouke and their family shared during their lighthouse tenure between the years of 1956-68.
263 pages $24.95
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
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