Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087020730X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the age of twelve, Ann accompanied the captain to the ports of Milwaukee, Chicago, Toledo, and Cleveland on the lower Great Lakes. She describes sailing through stormy weather and starry nights, visiting the engine room, dining at the captain's table, and wheeling the block-long ship with her father in the pilot house. Each year the thawing and freezing of the Great Lakes signaled the beginning and end of the shipping season, months of waiting that were punctuated by brief trips to various ports to meet her father, the captain.With lively storytelling and vivid details, Lewis captures the unusual life of shipping families whose days and weeks revolved around the shipping industry on the Great Lakes. Working his way up from deckhand to ship captain, Willis Michler became the master of thirteen ships over a span of twenty-eight years. She paints an intrigu
Interesting memoir of life on the Great Lakes E. Withers Ann Lewis, through this book, has opened my eyes to the shipping industry of the Great Lakes, especially in Lake Superior. Since I love new experiences through reading, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Lewis's work. She tells the story of her father, a dedicated sea man who became a ship's captain in due time. I. Amazon Customer said I love this warm and articulate memoir and I highly recommend it!. In her short but fascinating memoir, Ann Michler Lewis' descriptive style brings to life the reality of a family's rhythm and life as defined by the shipping seasons of the Great Lakes. She contrasts missing her father during his many voyages with the thrill of his return. The landscape of Ann's life is form. A Worthy Read Book Lover How better to understand what it's like aboard a massive ship than through the eyes of the captain's daughter? The author and her family were "people of the lake," continually adjusting their lives to the rhythms of the shipping calendar for the Great Lakes. Looking back at her childhood years, Lewis evokes
… Ship Captain’s Daughter is less a memoir than a recollection — the story of a rare life, told with an eye for telling detail, with a level-headed lack of drama (her father’s trait?) and a quiet appreciation of what her mother faced each March when the shipping order arrived and they were back on “sailing time.” (Sloane Crosley,Minneapolis Star Tribune Review, Feb. But there are also stories in the lives of those sailors’ families. Lewis, whose father, Willis Carl Michler, worked the ships for 47 years, starting at 16 and rising to t