Canoeing category: 141 books
The Lure of Faraway Places
Reflections on Wilderness and Solitude
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl's words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten...
Ultimate Canoe & Kayak Adventures
100 Extraordinary Paddling Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book is stunningly illustrated and has something for everyone, from whitewater adrenaline junkie to extreme sea kayaker. The adventures cover every sort of paddling venue - from mountain chasms, gentle rivers and lakes to crashing surf, dramatic coasts and the oceans beyond them. Paddle from...
Making a Bent Shaft Laminated Canoe Paddle
Instructions for the DIY paddle maker
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Making a Bent Shaft Laminated Canoe Paddle is all about the wood, materials, tools, and attitude you need to make your own paddle. This is a project well within reach of anyone looking for a DIY project that keeps them close to canoeing. Jeff goes through the preparatory steps if you want to...
Exploring the Big Woods
A Guide to the Last Great Forest of the Arkansas Delta
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Exploring the Big Woods: A Guide to the Last Great Forest of Eastern Arkansas is both a natural history and a guide to one of the last remnants of Mississippi bottomland forest, an ecosystem that once stretched from southern Illinois to the Gulf Coast.
Crossed by the White River and its tributaries,...
Alaska River Guide
Canoeing, Kayaking, and Rafting in the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
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...
Carolina Whitewater
A Paddler's Guide to the Western Carolinas
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The ultimate guide to paddling whitewater in the western Carolinas, Carolina Whitewater has guided boaters to the best water in the Tar Heel and Palmetto states for almost 30 years. This latest edition includes expanded and updated information for the classic rivers, like the Chattooga, French Broad,...
An Adirondack Passage
The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
A paddling classic back in print with new maps, photos, details, and afterword.
Christine Jerome walked into the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, and promptly fell in love with a 9-foot, 10½-pound canoe named the Sairy Gamp. More than a century before, in 1883, the Sairy Gamp...
by Joseph Van Nurden
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In this beautiful collection of essays on paddling and growing up in the Northwoods of Minnesota, Joseph Van Nurden regales readers with tales of misty mornings on the lake, paddling alongside moose, introducing his son to the wonders of canoeing, and his own childhood at a northern resort. Full of...
Beyond the River
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Duma is at a cross roads in life. Living in an informal settlement in Soweto with his father and young sister, Duma is expected to make a contribution to the household since he is unemployed. The easy way has been to steal electricity cables. But when his friend gets caught, Duma decides to try a...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1982
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...
Canoe and Kayak Routes of Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington
Including Southwest Washington
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
* 74 paddle routes in Oregon
* Trips range from easy for novices with an open canoe or sea kayak to more difficult on streams or open water where paddling skills are required
* Information on canoes, kayaks, paddles, safety equipment, and more
Phillip Jones has been exploring the Northwest...
Paddlenorth
Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Paddlenorth tells the riveting story of ’s 54 day paddling adventure on the Back River, in the northern wilderness of the subarctic, as she and her five companions battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, and treacherous rapids. The perils include rising tensions among the group, but these are...
Dazed but Not Confused
Tales of a Wilderness Wanderer
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Kevin Callan presents his best adventures -- and misadventures -- in the wilderness. Entertaining, yet enlightening, the stories are full of enthusiasm and are designed to get people to explore the wilderness on their own, and it's hoped, be inspired to protect what's still left.
These captured...
Canoe Country
The Making of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
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...