The Boys' Book of Canoeing and Sailing
Author: Warren Hastings Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
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Canoeing with the Cree
Author: Eric Sevareid
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0873517989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1930 two novice paddlers?Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port?launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly bad conditions and even worse advice, the ragged, hungry adventurers arrived in York Factory on Hudson Bay?with winter freeze-up on their heels. First published in 1935, Canoeing with the Cree is Sevareid's classic account of this youthful odyssey. ?Praise for Canoeing with the Cree ?"Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine." ?Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer and co-author of No Horizon Is So Far ?"Two high school graduates make an amazing journey . . . showing indomitable courage that carried them through to their destination. Humor and a spirit of adventure made a grand, good time of it, in spite of storms, rapids, long portages and silent wildernesses." ?Library Journal.
The Canoe Boys
Author: Alastair Dunnett
Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781903238998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It's too late in the year! they were advised, but they still did it. By canoe from Bowling to Kyle of Lochalsh with numerous stops along the way, Alastair Dunnett and Seamas Adam spent a heady Autumn in the 1934 meandering up the glorious West Coast of Scotland. On their way they sent reports back to the Daily Record informing the readers of their progress and the people they met along the way. Their account makes fascinating reading as they were hailed by onlookers and bystanders wherever they went as 'The Canoe Boys'. Escapades as varied as running the infamous tide-rush of the Dorus Mhor to a balmy harvest working on Calve Island off Mull, quenching their thirst with a mug of drammach (oats and water) are related in superb, lyrical style by Dunnett. This is an adventure story of youthful exuberance and of how life once was lived before the war changed everything for ever. Fully illustrated with archival material and contemporary press cuttings, this cult travelogue will find a new market among the growing number of adventure kayakers taking to Scotland's coastal waters. This new illustrated edition has an introduction by Dunnett's son, Ninian who has also supplied a full glossary and notes on each chapter"--Publisher's description.
Four Boys, Two Canoes, and the Guadalupe River
Author: Mae Durden-Nelson
Publisher:
Published: 2007-09-01
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781940130415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the town of Comfort in the Central Hill Country of Texas to the Gulf Coast of Texas, in 1971, four boys, ages 17 and 15, set out in two canoes to travel via the Guadalupe River 500 miles to the Gulf. Parents had given their consent and met them every Sunday. Two boys, kept daily journals and one took 80 pictures. Their adventure took them over huge Canyon Lake -- showing whitecaps -- an encounter with an attacking granddaddy cottonmouth moccasin -- a six-inch rainfall -- and logjams. The book concludes with brief biographies of the three remaining adventurers, (now successful businessmen) and one is a scientist at Texas A&M and also includes perspectives of how they view their daring odyssey from today's vantage point. It is dedicated to all teenage boys who not only dream dreams of adventure, but are lucky enough to follow them and live to tell the story.
The High School Boys' Canoe Club, Or Dick & Co.'s Rivals on Pleasant Lake
Author: Harrie Irving Hancock
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
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Author: Ben Schrank
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1466828145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Ben Schrank’s Love Is a Canoe is a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of human relationships and a heartwarming reminder of what it really means to be good to those we love. The author of a classic self-help guide to love and relationships, Peter Herman has won the hearts of romantics and cynics alike. But decades have passed since Marriage Is a Canoe was published and a recently widowed Peter begins to question his own advice. Much to his chagrin, he receives a call from Stella Petrovic, an ambitious young editor in New York City who forces him to reconsider his life’s work, not to mention the full force of his delusions. The book’s fiftieth anniversary is approaching, and Petrovic has devised a contest to promote the new edition. The prize? The chance for the winning couple—a pair of outwardly happy Brooklynites named Emily and Eli—to save their relationship by spending a weekend with the reclusive author. If Peter is going to help the contest’s winners, he must discover what he meant when he wrote Marriage Is a Canoe—and also find a way for himself to love again...
Canoeing the Great Plains
Author: Patrick Dobson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0803271883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Canoeing the Great Plains chronicles the author's return journey down the Missouri River from Helena to Kansas City in 1995"--
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780395150825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Happy Isles of Oceania
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006-12-08
Total Pages: 731
ISBN-13: 0547525184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
Author: Vera B. Williams
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1984-08-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0688040721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow 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.
