Canoeing category: 141 books
by Bob Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Premiere paddler and Texas Canoe Racing Hall of Famer Bob Spain presents a thorough and personal guide to all aspects of canoeing. He opens with a brief history of canoes and canoe making in North America followed by an illustrated how-to section on proper paddling technique and posture. Instructional...
Sea Kayaking
A Guide for Sea Canoeists
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In Sea Kayaking, , comprehensive guide for those who travel the open waters in the Southern Hemisphere, Philip Woodhouse, Australian paddler and Royal Australian Air Force veteran, shares his years of experience, technical training, and military teaching skills.
What began as a personal reference...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Canoeing and Kayaking
Expert Advice on Buying a Canoe or a Kayak
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Don't get caught without a paddle...
Filled with nearly 100 photos and illustrations, this must-have guide-written by the foremost paddlesports experts-gives the aspiring canoe or kayak adventurer everything he or she needs to know before taking the plunge. Inside, discover how to choose between...
Canoeing a Continent
On the Trail of Alexander Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2005
A highly personal account of the travels of Max Finkelstein as he retraces, some two hundred years later, the route of Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to cross North America (1793). Mackenzie's water trail is now commemorated as the Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route.
More than just...
Forest Life
Practical Meditations on Canoeing, Fishing, Hunting, and Bushcraft
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Forest bathers, readers of Cabin Porn and *Your Cabin in the Woods,* rejoice! This illustrated collection of Sears' odes to the outdoors is your perfect escape into nature.**
Forest Life collects George Washington Sears' timeless writing about the joys of exploring the wilderness, edited for...
Basic Canoeing
All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
2003 National Outdoor Book Award Winner. Step-by-step photos on correct form and essential strokes. Illustrated guide to river maneuvers plus information on gear, safety, choosing a canoe.
Knack Canoeing for Everyone
A Step-by-Step Guide to Selecting the Gear, Learning the Strokes, and Planning Your Trip
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
With a gear-buying guide and hundreds of color photos, this is the clearest, most accessible instructional guide available—for paddling on ponds, lakes, rivers, or oceans.
by Cliff Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A heart-warming, thoroughly modern, marvelously illustrated guide, Boundary Waters Canoe Camping is aimed at paddlers in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota and covers places to go, planning a canoe trip, navigating, selecting a canoe and rigging it out, selecting equipment, camping and cookery,...
by Ed Kraisler
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
There are 3 key skills to know before 2 people set out on open water in a canoe. Getting into the canoe without getting wet or tipping it over is a good starting point. Since canoes are brought ashore bow (front) first, these instructions assume it's in the water with the stern (back) furthest from...
Pike's Portage
Stories of a Distinguished Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
"Pike's Portage plays a very special role in the landscape of Canada's Far North and its human history. It is both an ancient gateway and the funnel for early travel from the boreal forest of the Mackenzie River watershed to the vast open spaces of the subarctic taiga, better known as the "Barren...
by Jerry Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
In these acclaimed essays, Jerry Dennis, widely recognized as one of our finest writers on nature and the outdoors, turns his attention to old passions and finds new reasons to appreciate them. This engaging collection explores the quintessential American sports of canoeing and camping and pays tribute...
Campfires and Loon Calls
Travels in the Boundary Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Jerry Apps shares 25 years of wilderness canoeing experience—wicked thunderstorms, inquisitive bears, swamping a canoe, and watching the night sky filled with stars—as well as advice from how to set up a camp and protect food from hungry bears, to minimalist cooking, appreciating a rainy day, and a history of the Boundary Waters region.
by William V. McNaull
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
The story begins with the author as a child getting an unwitting education in the ways of moving water by playing in the creek that flowed by his boyhood home. The McNaull residence was located between a railroad embankment and a highway which were confining borders for a kid growing up. Finally aging...
Fifty Places to Paddle Before You Die
Kayaking and Rafting Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In Fifty Places to Paddle Before You Die, the newest addition to the Fifty Places series, Chris Santella explores the best destinations for the diverse sport of paddling. The book features the world’s top spots for kayaking, rafting, canoeing, and stand-up paddleboarding. Destinations include the...