Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

by Robert J. Hemming

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Recounts the mysterious sinking of a seven hundred foot ore freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald, during a violent storm on Lake Superior in 1975.

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In some ways, it's a very good book, in some ways, it's a very frustrating book. If you just want to read a story, he's got a nice narrative. If you want to know what happened to the Fitzgerald, there's some obvious facts, some obvious info-dumping passed off as dialogue (he's got the crew talking about a lot of things that I think would fall under "goes without saying" for a crew as seasoned as Fitz's), and an awful lot of gray area where you're not sure if he's got a source for the information or is just inventing something to make the narrative flow.

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
363.1Social sciencesSocial problems and social servicesOther social problems and servicesPublic safety programs
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G530 .E26 .H45Geography, Anthropology and RecreationGeography (General)Adventures, shipwrecks, buried treasure, etc.

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