Across The Great Lake

It was a huge and powerful ship with a tall, handsome pilothouse and big smoking stacks, no place for a girl, though I loved it, I cannot tell you how much I loved it. In her eighty-fifth year, Fern Halvorson tells the story of a childhood journey across Lake Michigan and the secret she has kept since that ill-fated voyage. As his wife lies dying in the brutally cold winter of 1936, Henrik Halvorsen takes his daughter Fern away with him. He captains a great coal-fired vessel, the Manitou, transporting railroad cars across the icy lake. The five-year-old girl revels in the freedom of the ferry, making friends with a stowaway cat and a gentle young deckhand. The sighting of a ghost ship, though, presages danger for all aboard.

• | Author: Lee Zacharias
• | Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0299320901
• | ISBN-13: 9780299320904