June 2017 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage

The Salvager: The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes Mary Frances Doner, foreword by Michael Schumacher

Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage

The Salvager: The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes
Mary Frances Doner, foreword by Michael Schumacher


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Jun 2017 | University of Minnesota Press | 9781517902308 | 392pp | 215x139mm | RFB | AUD$32.99, NZD$39.99

The Salvager is a narrative history of Great Lakes shipping disasters of 1880–1950 and the life story of Captain Thomas Reid. Using the records of the Reid Wrecking and Towing Company as well as Reid's personal letters, here are the stories of the maritime disasters and wrecking adventures that followed, and of those waiting on shore for their loved ones.