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Far Distant Echo: A Journey by Canoe from Lake Superior to Hudson Bay

Author : Fred Marks
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483414124
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Far Distant Echo: A Journey by Canoe from Lake Superior to Hudson Bay written by Fred Marks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outdoorsmen and armchair travelers will encounter history, ravenous insects, trail menus, hungry bears, and the quiet joys of endurance in this intriguing recounting of a 2008 canoe expedition. Six men began a 1,300-mile canoe trip along a traditional fur-trading route. During the two-and-a-half-month expedition, four of them dropped out. One of the two who saw it through (Marks) turned 62 on the trail, and the satisfaction of the authors at completing the trek is expressed in vibrant if understated language: "Both of our hearts were racing. We had made it." The highly detailed account of planning the trip underscores the atmosphere of authenticity, and problems encountered along the way ring true. This is no journal of transcendental rapture; the emphasis is on the incidental and, often, on mishaps. Moments of serendipity, too, are presented keenly. Publishers Weekly 07/09/2012

Distant Fires

Author : Scott Anderson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785727040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Distant Fires written by Scott Anderson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1990-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's three month canoe adventure, which started at Duluth, Minnesota and ended at York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay.

A Summer and Winter on Hudson Bay

Author : Charles Kenneth Leith
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230404271
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Summer and Winter on Hudson Bay written by Charles Kenneth Leith and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...river. Next morning with new guides and canoe we succeeded in making about eight miles along the shore, when we were compelled by the high seas to wade with our canoe and supplies to the shore some half mile in. Hannah Bay is so shallow that the receding tide uncovers nearly two miles of mud flats off shore. In fact it is difficult from shore to see the water when the tide is out. The falling tide is likely to strand one far from shore, and it is no pleasant job to get in to dry land, for after reaching shore there is still about two miles of muskeg swamp to cross before ground is reached sufficiently solid to camp on. Canoe was cached, packs resumed, and two days of weary muskeg packing brought us to Partridge Creeks, a ramifying network of small streams, too deep to cross, running through a barely passable swamp. Signaling by shots located another camp of goose hunters, who came after us in canoes and piloted us to their camp. Next morning goodbye was said to these guides and with two new ones we started again in canoes. On reaching the mouth of the creeks we found the long expected had happened--the tide flats were covered with broken ice and impassable to canoe. Mail from Home 107 Moose Factory At Last Again packing was resumed and night brought us to Moose Factory, whence our course left the Bay for the railway. The trip from Ruperts House to Moose Factory had been made in a week, with the aid of five sets of guides, three canoes, and sixty miles of packing. On the way over we met Mr. Nicolson en route from Moose to Ruperts House with canoe and full crew. He had already been out nine days and wrote later that five days more were used on the trip. It was a satisfaction to us to know that our unusual efforts in packing had saved nearly...

Canoeing with the Cree

Author : Eric Sevareid
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515337
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Canoeing with the Cree written by Eric Sevareid and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1935, "Canoeing with the Cree" is Sevareid's classic account of a youthful odyssey--a summer-long canoe trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Includes a new Foreword by Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft.

River of Mountains

Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603160
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book River of Mountains written by Peter Lourie and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half is a true river with strong current, but the lower half is tidal, a sunken river from the days of glaciers. In its first 165 miles, it drops more than 4,000 feet to Albany. The second half falls no more than a foot. Lourie's account of his trip is a fresh look at one of America's great and complex waterways, one of the few, in fact, that still contains its historical and biological species of fish. It is also the longest inland estuary in the world. Henry Hudson called it the "great river of the mountains." Nowadays, too often the Hudson is stereotyped as a ruined, polluted industrial river. Its glorious past is compared to its present neglect. In River of Mountains, Peter Lourie combines the Hudson's rich history and descriptions of some of the region's most impressive landscape with the residents of its mill towns, the loggers, commercial fishermen, and barge pilots-all of whom are proof that the river is still a thriving, vital waterway. So, come with Peter Lourie on his trip, come explore with him from a canoe one of this country's great rivers, join him in his wonderful adventure.

Afloat Again, Adrift

Author : Andrew Keith
Publisher : Aliform Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780970765284
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Afloat Again, Adrift written by Andrew Keith and published by Aliform Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canoeing in the Wilderness

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Binker North
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Canoeing in the Wilderness written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1916 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make this canoe trip was the primitiveness of the region. Here was a vast tract of almost virgin woodland, peopled only with a few loggers and pioneer farmers, Indians, and wild animals. No one could have been better fitted than Thoreau to enjoy such a region and to transmit his enjoyment of it to others. For though he was a person of culture and refinement, with a college education, and had for an intimate friend so rare a man as Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was half wild in many of his tastes and impatient of the restraints and artificiality of the ordinary social life of the towns and cities. He liked especially the companionship of men who were in close contact with nature, and in this book we find him deeply interested in his Indian guide and lingering fondly over the man's characteristics and casual remarks. The Indian retained many of his aboriginal instincts and ways, though his tribe was in most respects civilized. His home was in an Indian village on an island in the Penobscot River at Oldtown, a few miles above Bangor. Thoreau was one of the world's greatest nature writers, and as the years pass, his fame steadily increases. He was a careful and accurate observer, more at home in the fields and woods than in village and town, and with a gift of piquant originality in recording his impressions. The play of his imagination is keen and nimble, yet his fancy is so well balanced by his native common sense that it does not run away with him. There is never any doubt about his genuineness, or that what he states is free from bias and romantic exaggeration.

Distant Fires

Author : Scott Anderson
Publisher : University of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780938586333
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Distant Fires written by Scott Anderson and published by University of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the adventure of two men who canoed 1700 miles from Duluth, Minnesota to the shores of Hudson Bay and discusses their battle with mosquitoes, their struggle with a tent that doesn't stay up in the wind, and their diet of macaroni and cheese for countless breakfasts

Fur Trade Canoe Routes Of Canada

Author : Eric W. Morse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Fur Trade Canoe Routes Of Canada written by Eric W. Morse and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bound for the Barrens

Author : Ernest Carl Oberholtzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984905201
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Bound for the Barrens written by Ernest Carl Oberholtzer and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Oberholtzer's 1912 exploratory 2,000-mile canoe journey to Hudson Bay and back as recorded in his daily journal and photographs he took along the way.

The Drama of the Forests

Author : Arthur Heming
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of the Forests written by Arthur Heming and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Drama of the Forests' is a romance-adventure novel by Arthur Heming. It is set on the outer end of a distant point a cluster of poplars shaded a small, clapboarded log house. There, in charge of Fort Consolation, lived the Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Beyond a little lawn enclosed by a picket fence stood the large storehouse. The lower floor of this was used as a trading room; the upper story served as a fur loft. Behind were seen a number of shanties, then another large building in which dog-sleds and great birch-bark canoes were stored. Farther away was a long open shed, under which those big canoes were built, then a few small huts where the half-breeds lived. With the exception of the Factor's house, all the buildings were of rough-hewn logs plastered with clay. Around the sweeping bend of the bay was a village of tepees in which the Indian fur hunters and their families spend their midsummer. Crowning a knoll in the rear stood a quaint little church with a small tin spire glistening in the sun, and capped by a cross that spread its tiny arms to heaven. On the hill in the background the time-worn pines swayed their shaggy heads and softly whispered to that, the first gentle touch of civilization in the wilderness.

Grand Portage As a Trading Post: Patterns of Trade at the Great Carrying Place

Author : Bruce White
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781484920961
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Grand Portage As a Trading Post: Patterns of Trade at the Great Carrying Place written by Bruce White and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this report is to describe the fur trade that took place at Grand Portage between Europeans and Native Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries. During this period Grand Portage was important for many reasons. A strategic geographical point in the trade route between the Great Lakes and the Canadian Northwest, it was best known as a trade depot and company headquarters in the period between 1765 and 1804.

Merchant Kings

Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429927356
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Kings written by Stephen R. Bown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people. The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British; Robert Clive, who rose from company clerk to become head of the British East India Company and one of the wealthiest men in Britain; Alexandr Baranov of the Russian American Company; Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers and Rhodesia; and George Simpson, the "Little Emperor" of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was chauffeured about his vast fur domain in a giant canoe, exhorting his voyageurs to paddle harder so he could set speed records. Merchant Kings looks at the rise and fall of company rule in the centuries before colonialism, when nations belatedly assumed responsibility for their commercial enterprises. A blend of biography, corporate history, and colonial history, this book offers a panoramic, new perspective on the enormous cultural, political, and social legacies, good and bad, of this first period of unfettered globalization.

Wilderness Rivers of Manitoba

Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550464405
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Rivers of Manitoba written by Hap Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well mapped and documented guide to wilderness canoe trips in Manitoba appropriate for a range of abilities from whitewater adventures for seasoned paddlers to quieter and shorter trips for the less seasoned.

Forest and Stream

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia

Author : Adrien Gabriel Morice
Publisher : Toronto, William Briggs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia written by Adrien Gabriel Morice and published by Toronto, William Briggs. This book was released on 1905 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Missinaibi: Journey to the Northern Sky

Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher : Erin Mills, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550464368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Missinaibi: Journey to the Northern Sky written by Hap Wilson and published by Erin Mills, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well mapped and documented guide to wilderness canoe trips in Northern Ontario appropriate for a range of abilities from whitewater adventures for seasoned paddlers to quieter and shorter trips for the less seasoned.