Maritime

In this beautifully illustrated children's book based on historical documents, readers share in Sport's adventures while discovering the various ways lighthouse tender ships helped keep the lake safe for others.

Happy, soft, and cute, this Sport plush dog is everybody's friend and a perfect gift for children. Companion to the book, "Sport - Ship Dog of the Great Lakes."

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Author: John Odin Jensen
Paperback
304 pages. 128 b&w and color photos and illustrations. 8 x 10"
ISBN: 978-0-87020-902-4
Publication Date: May, 2019
Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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This Storied River celebrates the Upper Mississippi’s colorful history and the unique role the river has played in shaping the Midwest. Each chapter includes a short list of must-see sites for the modern-day explorer.

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Paperback: $19.95
150 pages, 135 color and b/w photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870205798

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Thoroughly researched and vibrantly told, Vencdedor is a captivating account of a racing sailboat famous for its exploits and victories and of the man who built it. Vencedor, a 63-foot cutter, was built in Wisconsin by the Racine Boat Manufacturing Company in the golden age of yachting.

Paperback: $24.95
224 pages, 156 color and b&w photos, 1 map.
ISBN: 9780870206092

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From Lake Mendota to Lake Kegonsa, this round magnet shows the five lakes of Madison.

When you want to go sailing but can't get away, let these socks put some wind in your sail! Fits men's shoe sizes 7-12.5.

You, too, can be the G.O.A.T. when you sport these witty socks. Our staff think they’re pretty "baaaad". Fits men's shoe sizes 7-12.5.

Ten guide slates for shipwrecks off Door County, Wisconsin: Joys, Iris, Grape Shot, Success, Gen. Winfield Scott, Detroit Harbor Wreck, Annie Dall, Claflin Point Wreck, Australasia, and Advance.

Four guide slates for Lake Michigan shipwrecks off Door County, Wisconsin: Bullhead Point, Carrington, Christina Nilsson, and the Meridian.

Seven Guide Slates: Fleetwing, Francis Hinton, Frank O’Connor, Hetty Taylor, Louisiana, Niagara and Pilot Island.

Nine Guide Slates: Appomattox, Boaz, Cherubusco, City of Glasgow, Dan Hayes, Kate Kelly, Lumberman, Reynolds’ Pier and Selah Chamberlain.

Ten guide slates: Alaska, Atlanta, Arctic, Continental, J.M. Allmendinger, LaSalle, Lookout, Major Anderson, Pathfinder, and Tubal Cain.

Ten guide slates for Lake Superior wrecks: H.D.Coffinberry, Fedora, Lucerne, Noquebay, Ottawa, Pretoria, Stockton Island Brownstone Quarry Dock, Hermit Island Brownstone Quarry Dock, and Basswood Island Brownstone Quarry Dock.

Hardcover: $29.95
208 pages, 180 color photos, 7 ½ x 9
ISBN: 9780870208287

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Handmade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

This beautifully illustrated book relates dramatic moments from Great Lakes maritime history in a graphic-novel style. For children 8-11.

An intimate and engaging Native food memoir. These stories from the author’s teen and tween years—some serious, some laugh-out-loud funny—will take readers from Catholic schoolyards to Native foot trails to bowling alleys. An intimate and engaging Native food memoir.