Bøker av Bruce Kemp

An eye-opening voyage through the St. Lawrence Seaway. A little Joseph Conrad mixed with a dash of Bill Bryson. This is a trip a lot of people would like to make but few will ever get a chance to undertake. The Whales of Lake Erie is an inside view of the life aboard a historic Great Lakes freighter.

On the night of November 9, in 1913, the greatest hurricane ever to sweep the Great Lakes roared across the fresh water seas sinking 12 big ships and killing more than 260 people. For the first time, author Bruce Kemp has pulled together a compelling tale of the storm with interviews of survivors, state-of-the-art meteorological computer modelling, the opinions of 21st century Great Lakes captains and painstaking research through the newspapers of the day and government archives. Join him on his journey to find answers as to how this happened and whether it could occur again.

In the dark hours of November 9th, 1913, death screamed across the Great Lakes in the guise of a rare, white hurricane. The storm brutalized the region for the following week. In its wake it left cities crippled by devastating snowfalls, mysteries that remain unsolved and the corpses of 256 men and women from twelve of the largest ships