Excerpt from The Lake Pilots' Handbook: Useful Knowledge Pertaining to the Great Lakes, and Great Lakes' Piloting, That Should Be Useful to the Professional as Well as to the Beginner
A pilot is a person who makes a business of conducting vessels in and out of port, through narrow channels, up rivers, or along coasts where the navigation is especially diin cult or dangerous.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book is a comprehensive handbook for professional and amateur Great Lakes pilots, but it also contains interesting facts and insights for anyone interested in the history of the lakes. The author, a collector of books and articles on Great Lakes topics, has compiled knowledge from a wide variety of sources to create a handy reference guide for lake pilots. The book contains technical advice on navigating the Great Lakes, as well as historical information on the role of the lakes in American history and culture. The author discusses the significance of the lakes in the development of the United States and Canada, and highlights the importance of the lakes as a natural resource and a vital part of the economy of the region. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780260404268_0
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