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Books by Wes Oleszewski |
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October of 1993, while walking through the Sawgrass Mills Mall just
outside of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, author Wes Oleszewski was killing
time during a protracted time away from home in pilot training.
At the same time he was pondering the title of his next book. Realizing that catchy titles sell books better than does content, the author needed something that spoke to the potential readers. Soon a likely title struck him, and Wes strode into a large book store. Sighting a clerk who was aloft on a ladder re-stocking books, he approached her and asked, “How does a book title like “Ghost Ships, Gales and Forgotten Tales” sound to you?” |
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Thus, Wes’ fourth book was produced and titled “Ghost Ships, Gales and Forgotten Tales” The book was an instant hit, and rapidly became Avery’s number two best-seller, second only to Fred Stonehouse’s “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The book’s cover which portrays a whaleback steamer shoving through the ice on her maiden voyage, also helps attract attention as readers scoop up copies of the text. |
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book runs 212 pages long and contains 13 stories of true Great Lakes
maritime history. Stories take place in eras from 1950 to 1880 and
are all written in that captivating style that has become this author’s
form of historical narrative. Highlights in the text include the thrilling
story of the sinking of the whaleback steamer THOMAS WILSON which
is pictured on the cover and the eyewitness account of the loss of
the wooden steamer HERMAN H. HETTLER, with the eyewitness being interviewed
by the author |
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The
clerk smiled and responded, “That sounds like a seller!”
Along
with the cover photo, previously unpublished photos abound in this
text. Oddly, it was the author’s accidental discovery of the WILSON’s
photo in the basement archives of the Canal Park Museum that inspired
him to write the story of it’s sinking. A dozen such rare photos
are used in the text along with maps and the author’s drawings.
