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True maritime stories told in graphic-novel style This beautifully illustrated book for children ages 8�11 relates dramatic moments from Great Lakes maritime history in a graphic-novel style. The book�s five true stories span four centuries but take place in one location: a dangerous stretch of water near Lake Michigan�s western shore that is known as �Death�s Door.� Young readers will devour these tales of tragic accidents, mysterious disappearances, and heroic moments. The stories feature a 17th-century fur trading crew, an 18th-century Potawatomi trading party, a mail carrier and a shipbuilding family from the 19th century, and an early 20th-century basketball team. The narrator is Death�s Door itself, who wonders why people insist on crossing its treacherous waters, concluding it is �because they are human. Ambitious and restless...but loving too.� An informative afterword provides insight into the author�s sources and features archival images and additional historical details about each of the stories.