{"product_id":"9780967997605","title":"Titanic: The Great Lakes Connections","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn April, 1912, on the maiden voyage of Titanic, the world’s newest, largest, and most luxurious passenger ship, 345 of the 1,343 passengers were ultimately bound for the Great Lakes region: 61 made Chicago their destinations, 24 aimed for Detroit, while hundreds more headed for smaller locations and rural settings in Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, western Pennsylvania,and western New York state.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSome were returning to their homes; others hoped to settle in a new land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSome survived the world’s most famous sinking; others never reached their goals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book tells their stories. Also included:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— the similarities between Titanic and her 1912 Great Lakes counterpart, the City of Detroit III\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— tales of two artists on board Titanic who had strong Great Lakes connections, and stories of two Great Lakes artists who have strong Titanic connections!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— a comparison of England’s White Star Line and the Great Lakes’ White Star Line\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— the story of Morgan Robertson, the Great-Lakes-born-and-raised writer who uncannily predicted Titanic’s loss 14 years earlier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— the story of the retired Great Lakes captain from Milwaukee who, with his family, was on board Titanic!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— the effects that Titanic’s sinking had upon wireless (radio) development in the Great Lakes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— the role that Titanic’s sinking played in the tragic capsizing of the steamer, Eastland, in Chicago three years later, with more than 800 lives tragically and needlessly lost!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book explains links to hundreds of Great Lakes people — both on boardTitanic, and on land; previously untold stories of survivors bound for the Great Lakes — and why they survived when others didn’t!; and MUCH MORE!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cris Kohl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44308478689535,"sku":"9780967997605","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/Titanic.jpg?v=1695499689","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780967997605","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}