Eight Steamboats: Sailing Through the Sixties (Great Lakes Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814331750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With lively dialogue, Livingston details his experiences up to his signing off the Champlain in 1972 and then setting sail for landlocked Nepal to work with the Peace Corps. It was glaringly obvious that a time of change was upon the aging U.S. merchant fleet faced threatening competition from the newer Canadian fleet. When financial need forced him to forgo a trip to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and so he sailed Lake Michigan instead. In subsequent years, he dropped out of school to catch the mailboat to his ships as they transited the Detroit River. Later, Livingston sailed with the notorious George "Bughouse" Schultz on the ill-starred Tanker Mercury. From the Publisher In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping indust
During that period, he helped initiate several educational programs including the Great Lakes Heritage Program, the Michigan 4H Great Lakes Natural Resources Camp and the Great Lakes Education Program. . Peace Corps in Nepal, Patrick Livingston began a twenty-five year career as an agent with Michigan State University E
The demand for iron ore skyrocketed as baby boomers matured into the age of auto and appliance buying. Later, Livingston sailed with the notorious George "Bughouse" Schultz on the ill-starred tanker Mercury. With lively dialogue, Livingston details his experiences up to his signing off the Champlain in 1972 and then setting sail for landlocked Nepal to work with the Peace Corps. When financial need forced him to forgo a trip to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he sailed Lake Michigan instead. Developed during World War II, the U.S. Both maritime and Great Lakes enthusiasts will enjoy this voyage back to the early years of the Great Lakes shipping industry.. ships and even more so on the men who sailed them.Eight Steamboats chronicles Patrick Livingston's adventures on eight shipping vessels-only one of which survives-during the 1960s. In subsequent years, he dropped out of school to catch the mailboat to his ships as they transited the Detroit River. In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of immense change. Told from the perspective of a writer who sails rather than a sailor who writes, the tales are spiced with connections between shore and sea. It was glaringly obvious that a time of change was upon the aging U.S. While the city of Detroit burned in 1967, Livingston served milkshakes to passengers on the South American of the Georgian Bay Lines. merchant fleet f
Life aboard eight Greatlakes Steamboats in the 1960's Peter H. Cooke I bought this book expecting it to be mostly about the eight steamboats but found it to be several stories in one.The typical Great Lakes book focuses on the boats (ships if they were on saltwater) or things like storms on the lakes etc. This book focuses on the crew, their personalities, eccentrici. A Memoir about coming of age in the 60's This book reads as a memoir. Anyone who came of age during the sixties, relates to the uncertainty of that period or would like to learn more will enjoy this adventure.The author pulls you into his volatile world, as the youngest child in a family of eight he is as confused and free as the time he i. Vincent R. Pasquantonio said A personal history.. These are the singular tales of one man's experiences on various and very varied Great Lakes vessels during the waning days of their deployment on the Lakes.