Voyages: Canada's Heritage Rivers (soft cover)
Voyages: Canada's Heritage Rivers (soft cover)

Author: Lynn E. Noel

Publisher: Breakwater Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781550810998

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Voyages is an exceptional book that celebrates the diversity and splendor of the twenty-seven rivers nominated to the Canadian Heritage Rivers system. Lynn Noel has assembled an impressive collection of stories that are filled with a spirit of adventure, discovery, beauty, and joy. The rivers in this book are more than flowing water, each has a unique story to tell, and each represents an important part of our Canadian heritage and identity. These rivers are the threads that bind this nation, from the Arctic Barrens to southe Ontario 's farmlands, from Newfoundland Rocky Hills to the mountains and glaciers of British Columbia. This is a perfect book for anyone who cares for or wishes to lea about, Canada's Spectacular River heritage and environment. - Don Gibson, National Manager, Canadian heritage rivers system project. The exploration of Canada's national river conservation system in its first ten years. Their spirit of place is captured in river songs, folktales, and Canadian Literature, with color photographs and hand-drawn maps.

Canoeing Wild Rivers
Canoeing Wild Rivers

Author: Cliff Jacobson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1493014803

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The 30th Anniversary Edition of the classic Expedition Canoeinghas long been considered the premier guide to canoeing and exploring North America's waterways. This thirtieth-anniversary edition expertly details everything you need to know about paddling the continent's wild rivers. Outdoors writer and wilderness canoe guide Cliff Jacobson draws on his thirty-plus years of river running to give you sound advice, fresh new ideas, and advanced techniques for canoeing in the wilderness. Completely updated and revised, inside you'll find dozens of full-color photos, how-to illustrations, source charts, canoeing and camping tricks, a chapter full of hard-won advice from more than twenty-five of Jacobson's fellow canoeing experts, and a brand new chapter devoted to paddling desert and swamp rivers. Look inside to find: How to pick a crew Route and trip planning Canoeing and camping gear Navigating by map, compass, and GPS How to deal with dangerous bears Canoe hazards and rescue Barren-land travel Preparation and skills are everything when canoeing wild rivers. Take along this guide on all of your canoeing adventures.

Paddling Partners
Paddling Partners

Author: Bruce W. Hodgins

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2008-02-08

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1459721330

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Carol and Bruce Hodgins began leading canoe trips in 1957 for Camp Wanapitei on Lake Temagami in Northern Ontario, initially to the great rivers of that region and on into Quebec. Their first venture north of 60 found them on the South Nahanni, soon to be followed by the Coppermine River, and by the 1990s their annual tripping took them to the Soper River on Baffin Island. included with their richly descriptive accounts of wilderness travel with groups of people, are kayak adventures in Baja California, Mexico, and the Queen Charlottes, paddling in and near the Everglades and explorations on Heritage rivers in the Maritimes and along the coast of Newfoundland. Few have personally experienced the breadth of wilderness travel in Canada as have the Hodgins husband-and-wife team. Their fifty years as "paddling partners," a legendary achievement, is a story of shared joys, challenges, triumphs and mishaps, delightfully told and augmented by excerpts from daily logs, historical insights and the tidbits of experience gleaned over the years.

Leadership & Rock & Roll
Leadership & Rock & Roll

Author: Beth Bratkovic

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2010-11-07

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1452074100

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This book is about the many different ways that leadership can be integrated into life. When John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States of America, said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader," he did a good job of crystallizing this approach to leadership. Consider the influence you have each and every day with the people in your life - from the people you work with, plan with, eat with, chat with, coach, cajole, or even simply meet on the street. Two things have influenced me throughout life: leadership and rock and roll. Leadership has been my professional life; I've been learning about it, practicing it, and training others to lead for more than twenty years. I've been listening to rock and roll, and getting inspired by it, for a lot longer than twenty years. The concept of this book is born from one fact: there is an opportunity for ineffective leaders to become tolerable, for tolerable leaders to become good, and for good leaders to become great. How are you using your life to become a better leader? This book provides some anecdotes and a framework to help you apply leadership to every aspect of your life.

Canadian Canoe Expedition
Canadian Canoe Expedition

Author: Jon van Tamelen

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2017-01-25

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1460295250

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To celebrate Canada's Centennial, ten men paddled a canoe from British Columbia to Quebec. They relived the challenges of "Les Vrais Voyageurs", fishing, hunting and sleeping under the stars. They survived treacherous rapids, waterfalls and exhausting portages. Van Tamelen, the crew's bowman, tells their story. This is a book that will leave any outdoor adventurer begging for more. "You, and all members of your crew, are deserving of our most sincere congratulations on the realization of a Centennial project of this magnitude. It is without doubt the most spectacular individual Centennial project that I have heard about in this year and, as you know, there were many extraordinary feats, indeed, accomplished. But a 5200 mile canoe trip tops them all." Lester B. Pearson Prime Minister of Canada...

Principles of Water Resources
Principles of Water Resources

Author: Thomas V. Cech

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1118790294

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Proper management of water resources can take many forms, and requires the knowledge and expertise to work at the intersection of mathematics, geology, biology, geography, meteorology, political science, and even psychology. This book provides an essential foundation in water management and development concepts and practices, dissecting complex topics into short, understandable explanations that spark true interest in the field. Approaching the study of water resources systematically, the discussion begins with historical perspective before moving on to physical processes, engineering, water chemistry, government regulation, environmental issues, global conflict, and more. Now in its fourth edition, this text provides the most current introduction to a field that is becoming ever more critical as climate change begins to threaten water supplies around the world. As geography, climate, population growth, and technology collide, effective resource management must include a comprehensive understanding of how these forces intermingle and come to life in the water so critical to us all.

Deep River
Deep River

Author: Jones Howell

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0578081644

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"After his mother's mysterious death, young Jones escapes into Little League baseball and adventure in the small river town of Ramseur, North Carolina. He finds trouble enough when the smoking, stealing hoodlum Donnie Ratcliff and the simple-minded Buford Hicks move into the neighborhood and befriend him. Other quirky townspeople and their bizarre stories come alive when Hollywood decides to film a Depression-era movie the likes of Bonnie and Clyde, using the town, the river, and the defunct cotton mill as a backdrop. The invisible influence of his mother and the charm of the river, especially the mystique of an enormous bird he sights there, help Jones find meaning for his life beyond the heartbreak of loss and even beyond the confidence he gains as a baseball pitcher"--Page 4 of cover.

Inheriting a Canoe Paddle
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle

Author: Misao Dean

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1442612878

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Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes as objects and to canoeing as an activity.

NOLS Wilderness Wisdom
NOLS Wilderness Wisdom

Author: John Gookin

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0811748820

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More than 1,000 quotes from close to 600 sources in categories ranging from leadership to diversity and inclusion to environmental ethics to expedition planning.

Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips
Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips

Author: Laurel Archer

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

Published: 2010-09-22

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1926855043

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This second volume of the guidebook series Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips describes in detail 7 spectacular northern BC paddling routes over 11 phenomenal rivers, and is designed to provide canoeists with all the information they require to plan a river trip appropriate to their skill level and special interests. Each route includes: a summary of the main attractions; where to start and finish along the river; trip length in days and kilometres; required maps; suggestions about when to go; and star ratings for difficulty and for historical and recreational value. Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips: Volume Two covers numerous routes--some never documented in any publication before--including the Spatsizi, Upper and Lower Stikine, Tatshenshini/Alsek, Turnagain, Kechika, Toad, Liard, Tuchodi and Muskwa rivers. The book provides paddlers of all types with a variety of river trips to choose from based on comprehensive and comparative information as well as detailed and specific navigational notes to aid them along their chosen route.