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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.
DISASTER GREAT LAKES
By Megan Long
Disaster Great Lakes chronicles nearly fifty of the most terrible events to strike people and surrounding communities on the five Great Lakes.
Erratic weather on the Great Lakes has brought down ships from War of 1812 schooners to the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald. On shore, great fires devastated young cities like Chicago and Toronto and cut huge swaths through the forests, leaving thousands dead. Train wrecks, explosions and environmental disasters like the Love Canal have been painful catalysts of change.
In all the stories, the myriad ways people respond in times of crisis reveal the human core in all its complexity. Richly told and illustrated with dramatic archival images, this 148-page book includes a map and a concise list of the worst catastrophes in American and Canadian Great Lakes history.
148 pages with b/w photographs $24.95
Ghosts of the Bay:
The Forgotten History of Georgian Bay
By Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm & Russell Floren
Lynx Images Inc.
300 page book and companion 92 minute video
Over 16,000 copies sold! Take a journey to Georgian Bay's forgotten past. Visit an eerie world of shipwrecks, abandoned boom towns and missions. These worn monuments emerge with their tales of adventure, scandal and folklore, revealing the lively and often brutal experiences of those who dared to make a life on these shores.Highlights over 140 sites, with archival photographs and 50 maps.
book and video package $49.95
book $24.95 and video $29.95
 How to order To Read excerpts and learn intreguing stories about Georgian Bay press Ghosts
Ghosts of the Great Lakes: More Than Mere Legend
By Megan Long
The Great Lakes have a colorful past that spans hundreds of years, stretches over thousands of miles and sometimes crosses into the spirit world. Ghosts of the Great Lakes takes readers from the far eastern shores of Lake Ontario to western Lake Superior, revealing haunting and strange tales. These whispers from the other side, however, are based in history and fact. One lighthouse site hides the bones of a murdered keeper. Rapping sounds in a family home mark the beginning of the Spiritualist movement in North America. A bride has a premonition that her honeymoon ride will end in death... and soon after, the steamer she was on vanishes. Repeated sightings of ghost ships in the mist. Can these strange phenomena be attributed to the imagination? How can multiple sightings be explained away as mere tricks of light and fog? Read these historical accounts of the Great Lakes' most fascinating ghost stories and judge for yourself. Where does fact end and folklore begin?
ISBN 1-894073-31-2
6 x 9, 176 pages, $24.95
GREAT LAKES DIVING GUIDE
By Cris Kohl
416-page book
This comprehensive book is a must have for any diver and nautical-history enthusiast. Covering the five Great Lakes, and Georgian Bay, this volume includes photographs and detailed information about each shipwreck including history, depth, location and level of difficulty. 416 pages with over 200 images, maps and drawings
$29.95
Mysterious Islands:Forgotten
Tales of the Great Lakes
Andrea Gutsche, Cindy Bisaillon
300-page book & 72-minute video
Lynx Images Inc.
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 intreguing stories featured in Islands
The North Channel and St. Mary's River:
A Guide to the History
By Andrea Gutsche and Barbara Chisholm
Lynx Images Inc.
For centuries, Lake Huron's North Channel and St. Mary's River have provided an essential passageway, first for native peoples and then to successive waves of Europeans. The footprints of Indians, explorers, missionaries and fur traders, soldiers and settlers, entrepreneurs and scoundrels are ever visible. Brimming with stories and folklore, the book includes over
125 sites, maps and archival photographs. 330 pages $24.95
Shipwreck Tales of the Great Lakes
By Cris Kohl
Could a curious piece wood be from the fabled ship Griffon which went missing on its maiden voyage in 1679? What made a popular Detroit excursion steamer cruise into history? How did the captain of the schooner George A. Marsh keep his shipwreck survival a secret for ten years? What were the tragic results when an exciting "Mystery Ship" schooner was raised from the depth of the Great Lakes in 1969? How did a shipwreck cause Chicago to grow by nearly 200 acres? How did the Australian convict ship Success become a Great Lakes wreck? Read these and more tales of murder, mystery and mayhem. 288 pages, 6 x 9, ISBN 0-9679976-4-X $29.95
Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods
Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm and Russell Floren
Lynx Images Inc.
320-page book & 72-minute video
This breathtaking film and book reveals Lake Superior as a world belonging to the gods. The human experience here is one of challenge- our attempts to exploit this place have left ghost towns and other fading marks on these wild and rugged shores. Rare archival footage and photographs, voices from the past, stunning cinematography and a haunting score enrich these compelling sagas. The book includes over 200 sites, maps and archival photographs.
96pp.photos & illus.sc 1999
book and video package $49.95
book $24.95 and video $29.95
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
TREACHEROUS WATERS: KINGSTON'S SHIPWRECKS
By Cris Kohl
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
100 BEST GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECKS VOL 1
By Cris Kohl
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. 320 pages with 75 colour images, maps and drawings and 49 archival photos
100 BEST GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECKS VOL 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.
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