About the Author

Mark L. Thompson, a former college professor and administrator, spends most of the year working as an officer aboard the ships of the USS Great Lakes Fleet, Inc. He is also the author of A Sailor’s Logbook: A Season aboard Great Lakes Freighters (Wayne State University Press, 1999), Queen of the Lakes (Wayne State University Press, 1994) and Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Wayne State University Press, 1991).

Reviews

Mark Thompson sets out to construct an historically accurate well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. To explain the causes of these events he graphically blends aspects of history and human nature with a broad view of economics, politics, and marine technical advance.--Bradley A. Rogers "East Carolina University"