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The Survival of the Bark Canoe

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708592
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Survival of the Bark Canoe written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1982-05-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.

The Last Canoe

Author : John Craig
Publisher : Pma Books
ISBN 13 : 9780887781964
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Last Canoe written by John Craig and published by Pma Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Noah's Last Canoe

Author : Doug Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894283823
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Noah's Last Canoe written by Doug Evans and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967 the Manitoba Museum asked northerner Doug Evans to undertake a mission. The museum was keenly aware that the Cree method of constructing birch bark canoes for northern lakes and rivers was fast disappearing. Evans flew into the Pelican Narrows region of Saskatchewan to chronicle the step--by--step building process used by Cree elder Noah Custer. Some 40 years later, Evans rediscovered his manuscript and realized it was the only record of this lost art. Great Plains is proud to publish this anthropological treasure.

Featherweight Boatbuilding

Author : Mac McCarthy
Publisher : WoodenBoat Books
ISBN 13 : 9780937822395
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Featherweight Boatbuilding written by Mac McCarthy and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Wee Lassie as an example, the author opens your eyes to the natural beauty around you. A practical and beautiful craft, this lightweight and strong double-paddle canoe will carry you to waterways that are inaccessible in most boats.

Bark Canoes

Author : John Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770851580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Bark Canoes written by John Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in association with the Mariners' Museum"

Alaska River Guide

Author : Karen Jettmar
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN 13 : 0897327977
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Alaska River Guide written by Karen Jettmar and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea. This guide profiles a wide variety of rivers from all over Alaska, concentrating on trips for intermediate boaters, and including a few major expeditions for the experienced river-runner. A section on gear outlines what to take into the backcountry.

Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America

Author : Edwin Tappan Adney
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602390711
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America written by Edwin Tappan Adney and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. Built with Stone Age tools from available materials, their design, size, and appearance were varied to suit the many requirements of their users. Even today, canoes are based on these ancient designs, and this fascinating guide combines historical background with instructions for constructing one. Author Edwin Tappan Adney, born in 1868, devoted his life to studying canoes and was practically the sole scholar in his field. His papers and research have been assembled by a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.

Paddle Your Own Canoe

Author : Nick Offerman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698138325
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Paddle Your Own Canoe written by Nick Offerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.

The Canoe Maker

Author : Donald Soctomah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633811713
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Canoe Maker written by Donald Soctomah and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canoe Days

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0307974723
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Canoe Days written by Gary Paulsen and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening this book is like sitting down in a canoe, taking up a paddle, and gliding out into the summer beauty of a hidden lake. In this picture book that is as refreshing and inviting as a perfect canoe day, a fawn peeks out from the trees as ducklings fan out behind their mother. Butterflies pause and fish laze beneath the lily pads. Ruth Wright Paulsen’s sunlit paintings and Gary Paulsen’s poetic text capture all the peace and pleasure of a day when water and sky are one.

Around the World in a Dugout Canoe

Author : John M. MacFarlane
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550178806
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Around the World in a Dugout Canoe written by John M. MacFarlane and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.

Canoe Lake

Author : Roy MacGregor
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0771054602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Canoe Lake written by Roy MacGregor and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubled American woman travels to a small Ontario town, determined to find the mother she has never known. As she searches through dusty records and stirs up old memories among those around her, three young people emerge from the mists of the past…a beautiful woman named Jenny, a shy local boy named Russell, and a dark-eyed painter named Tom, who changes the course of Jenny and Russell’s lives. Historical reality and conjecture are skilfully interwoven with intrigue and suspense as these three move unwittingly toward tragedy.

Canoe Country

Author : Roy MacGregor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736142X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Canoe Country written by Roy MacGregor and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes. From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor's celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadians have with our first and still favourite means of getting around. Famous paddlers have been so enchanted with the canoe that one swore God made Canada as the perfect country in which to paddle it. Drawing on MacGregor's own decades spent whenever possible with a paddle in his hand, this is a story of high adventure on white water and the sweetest peace in nature's quietest corners, from the author best able (and most eager) to tell it.

The Red Canoe

Author : Wayne Johnson
Publisher : Agora
ISBN 13 : 9781951709723
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Red Canoe written by Wayne Johnson and published by Agora. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door, and is on the brink of suicide. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation--thus back on the edge of his origins--Buck makes a good living as a boatbuilder and carpenter. He spends his days alone, trying to win the trust of a feral cat...until a semi-feral girl shows up, attracted by the canoe Buck's building. Lucy, Ojibwe name Gabe' bineh,"(Everlasting Bird), lives in a trailer alone with her father, a local policeman struggling with PSTD from the Iraq war, compounded by the loss of Lucy's mother. She's also mostly alone. Just barely fifteen, since her mother's death she's been systematically molested and raped by her father's colleagues on the force without his knowledge. Threatened that if she ever spoke out, her father would bear the consequences. Buck senses Lucy is in trouble, and doesn't hesitate to plunge into it head-first as usual. On the foundation of their shared Ojibwe heritage, together they build more than a canoe, but a friendship, and together trace Lucy's abuse to a ring that extends farther than either of them ever imagined.

The Starship and the Canoe

Author : Kenneth Brower
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 168051279X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Starship and the Canoe written by Kenneth Brower and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name.” --Chicago Sun-Times “Brower’s superbly written book clutches at one’s imagination.” --Publishers Weekly “In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats.” --Kirkus Reviews Originally published in 1978, The Starship and the Canoe is the remarkable story of a father and son: Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son George, a brilliant high school dropout, lives in a treehouse and is designing a giant kayak to explore the icy coastal wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Author Kenneth Brower describes with stunning impact their lives and their visions of the world. It is a timeless tale framed by modern science, adventure, family, and the natural world.

Shin-chi's Canoe

Author : Nicola Campbell
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1773065572
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Shin-chi's Canoe written by Nicola Campbell and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father. The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion.

Two in a Red Canoe

Author : Megan Baldino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558688629
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Two in a Red Canoe written by Megan Baldino and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow a young couple as they spend the summer traveling the "mighty Yukon." Stories of adventure, romance, and history combine with breathtaking photos to give us a very personal view of one of the last and greatest wild, unspoiled rivers in North America.