Author: Eugenio Barba
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134818203
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Nathaniel Bishop
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429020083
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Nathaniel Bishop paddled along natural and manmade waterways from Quebec to Florida in 1874-75. Most of the way he travelled alone in paper canoe. This is the story of his incredible journey.

Author: Nathaniel H. Bishop
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387007582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: Nathaniel Bishop
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040619391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Nathaniel Holmes Bishop
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : C.T. Dillingham
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic Coast (Canada)
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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During his brief visit to Charleston, Bishop recalls collecting his mail from the African American postmaster, and notes the hospitality extended him by members of the Chamber of Commerce, the Carolina Club, Mr. James L. Frazer of the South Carolina Regatta Association, and the Rev. G. R. Brackett, with whom he lodged.

Author: Vera B. Williams
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688040721
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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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: Ted Moores
Publisher: Firefly Books Limited
ISBN: 9781552093429
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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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: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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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: Kenneth Brower
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 168051279X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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“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: Bruce Erickson
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887559115
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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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.