Calvin Rutstrum's fans have long known about his nuts-and-bolts approach to wilderness living. With this reissue of North American Canoe Country, a new generation of readers has the chance to learn time-tested secrets of a safe canoe adventure from a master outdoorsman. First published in 1964, North American Canoe Country is a complete treatise on the art of canoeing. Written as a guide for travelers who wanted to embark on self-sufficient trips deep into the wilderness, this book offers readers all the information they ...
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Calvin Rutstrum's fans have long known about his nuts-and-bolts approach to wilderness living. With this reissue of North American Canoe Country, a new generation of readers has the chance to learn time-tested secrets of a safe canoe adventure from a master outdoorsman. First published in 1964, North American Canoe Country is a complete treatise on the art of canoeing. Written as a guide for travelers who wanted to embark on self-sufficient trips deep into the wilderness, this book offers readers all the information they need to plan and undertake a canoe trip. Rutstrum gives the essentials on canoes, comparing birch-bark, wood, wood-and-canvas, and aluminum crafts. His paddling procedures are timeless -- he describes strategies for rough waters, rapids, for boating alone or in tandem, including diagrams of strokes. Portaging, safety procedures, direction finding, towing, and much more are systematically approached and explained. Rutstrum also writes about some of the epic canoe journeys of the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to both armchair adventurers curious about life in the great American wilderness and to those who want ideas on how to return to a less complicated way of enjoying the great outdoors.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Book Clean hardcover book in unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with brown canoer image on cover, brown lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean map-illustrated endpapers (small previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper). Wonderful illustrations by Les Kouba. 216 pages. Dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, has light rubbing; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Oneof America's greatest outdoorsmen tells precisely how to prepare for canoeing adventures. Canoe types, paddling procedures for rough waters, rapids, for boating alone or paddling in tandem; portaging, safety procedures, direction finding, towing and much more are systematically approached and explained. Here, too, are personal reminiscences of time in the woods and accounts of some of the great canoeing adventures of recent times.
