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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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John U. Bacon tells the harrowing true story of the “Mighty Fitz,” a 729-foot-long ship that perished in November 1975, and the lasting impact of the tragic maritime disaster.

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"A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, Erik Larsen’s Dead Wake, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea will love this deeply reported tale." —Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author of The Wide Wide Sea and In the Kingdom of Ice


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