Too Much Sea for Their Decks by Michael Schumacher

Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for Too Much Sea for Their Decks:

Never go on a Great Lake in November.

Quick synopsis:

A look at shipwrecks on Lake Superior.

Fact for Non-History People:

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world with 31,700 square miles of surface area.

Fact for History Nerds:

November shipwrecks on the Great Lakes outnumbered the losses in every other month.

My Take on Too Much Sea for Their Decks:

It’s great when a book gives you precisely what you expect. Michael Schumacher’s Too Much Sea for Their Decks is the story of a bunch of different shipwrecks on Lake Superior. In fact, there is discussion of some wrecks in other Great Lakes but those are just stories which need to be told. Even Schumacher’s introduction is delightfully straightforward and so I will make my review the same. If you want to read about shipwrecks from an author who knows how to tell a story, then read this book.

(This book was provided as an advance copy by Netgalley and the University of Minnesota Press.)

Verdict:

A book that gives you precisely what it advertises. Buy it here!