The Canoe

Author : Kenneth Brower
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 168051279X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( 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.

Author : Ted Moores
Publisher : Firefly Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781552093429
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canoecraft written by Ted Moores and published by Firefly Books Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print: A revised second edition of a classic how-to book on canoe building. The new edition is updated to include advances in glues and techniques since the original was published, as well as five new canoe plans, builder tips and paddle carving.

Author : Nick Offerman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698138325
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( 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.

Author : Leslie Davidson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459809742
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Red Canoe written by Leslie Davidson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rhyming picture book, a young girl describes the magical encounters with wildlife that she and her grandfather witness while out in the red canoe.

Author : Eugene Yuji Arima
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554070800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canoe written by Eugene Yuji Arima and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of North American canoe traditions.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708592
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( 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.

Author : Slim Ray
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811730327
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canoe Handbook written by Slim Ray and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential maneuvers for all canoeists, developed at the acclaimed Nantahala Outdoor Center.

Author : Vera B. Williams
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688040721
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe written by Vera B. Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1984-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the red canoe from page to page as it journeys down river carrying the family on a camping tour. It's the next best thing to paddling it yourself.

Author : Bruce Erickson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887559115
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Canoe written by Bruce Erickson and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe’s relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies.

Author : John Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770851580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( 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"