Eight Steamboats: Sailing Through the Sixties

by Patrick Livingston

Recounting his sailing and land roving expeditions during the tumultuous 1960s, Patrick Livingston presents a series of tales centered on ships of the Great Lakes and the men who sail them.

In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of immense change. Developed during World War II, the U.S. merchant fleet faced threatening competition from the newer Canadian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814331750
• ISBN13: 9780814331750
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"