Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

by Robert J. Hemming

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Epilonian Books presents ... Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald ISBN:0809259214 Author:Robert J. Hemming Publisher:Contemporary Books Release Date:1981 Seller Category:History Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Very Good Sku: 20260902007 Notes: Contemporary Books, Published 1981. Hardcover, xxiv, 248 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with 8 pages of black-and-white photographs and Coast Guard drawings of the wreck, map of Lake Superior. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Dark blue faux leatherette boards with gilt lettering on spine, some nicking at head of spine, mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Mild foxing and toning to text, two small foxing spots to front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (Fitzgerald's deck and pilothouse from the bow, Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics on rear panel, priced $11.95) has a 3/4 inch tear at top edge of rear panel near spine, smaller nicks and short tears along edges, mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. The first hardcover edition of the earliest narrative account of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the 729-foot ore carrier lost with all 29 hands on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Hemming, a Toledo newspaper editor and lifelong Great Lakes sailor, built the book from the Coast Guard and NTSB investigations and several hundred interviews with the crew's families and with the men aboard the Arthur M. Anderson, which was trailing the Fitzgerald that night. He reconstructs t

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Year: 1984
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780809259212
• Condition: Very Good

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