Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes by Mark L. Thompson

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/133142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes Author: Mark L. Thompson Narrator: Gary L. Willprecht Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins Release date: 10-02-18 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings Genres: Maritime History & Piracy Publisher's Summary: The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a 60-foot galley weighing nearly 50 tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century.