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      Across the Great Lake

      by Lee Zacharias
      Published
      Sep 2018
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
      Pages
      248
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      "It was a huge and powerful ship with a tall, handsome pilothouse and big smoking stacks, no place for a girl, though I loved it, I cannot tell you how much I loved it." In her eighty-fifth year, Fern Halvorson tells the story of a childhood journey across Lake Michigan and the secret she has kept since that ill-fated voyage.

      As his wife lies dying in the brutally cold winter of 1936, Henrik Halvorsen takes his daughter Fern away with him. He captains a great coal-fired vessel, the Manitou, transporting railroad cars across the icy lake. The five-year-old girl revels in the freedom of the ferry, making friends with a stowaway cat and a gentle young deckhand. The sighting of a ghost ship, though, presages danger for all aboard.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Mar 2020 University of Wisconsin Press ISBN 0299320944
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      Sep 2018 University of Wisconsin Press ISBN 0299320987
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