Author : Mike Elliott
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2015-09
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : 9780994863300
When restoring a wood-canvas canoe, you don't work on it, you work with it. In This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, Mike Elliott guides you through the process of bringing your classic heirloom back to life. He takes you step-by-step through all aspects of a canoe restoration from assessment to the finishing touches. Concise instructions clearly illustrated, provide the passport you need to embark on this unique adventure.
Author : Steven Biel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393316766
An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon.
Author : Nick Offerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0698138325
Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.
Author : Jerry Dennis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2000-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780312267384
An engaging collection of essays extolling the virtues of traditional outdoor equipment from wooden canoes to cast-iron skillets from the 1999 recipient of the Michigan Author of the Year Award presented by the Michigan Library Association. "From a Wooden Canoe" is a gift book with substance--one that will command a place on a shelf of treasured possessions. Illustrations.
Author : Susan T. Audette
Publisher : Tilbury House Pub
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780884482024
The Old Town Canoe Company has a rich and diverse history now spanning a century, and its story is told here in rich and colorful detail, from the earliest wood-and-canvas canoes to today's sleek polymer models. Wonderful illustrations and motifs have been selected from a hundred years of Old Town Canoe Company catalogs, along with stunning photographs, past and present, of Old Town's canoes, launches, runabouts, dinghies, sailboats, kayaks, and more.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1982-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0374708592
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 : John MacGregor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2023-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382140292
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Nicola Campbell
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1773065572
Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father. The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion.
Author : Jerry Stelmok
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Boatbuilding
ISBN : 9781585745906
The definitive guide to building this classic watercraft. (SEE QUOTE.)
Author : Edwin Tappan Adney
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1602390711
The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. Built with Stone Age tools from available materials, their design, size, and appearance were varied to suit the many requirements of their users. Even today, canoes are based on these ancient designs, and this fascinating guide combines historical background with instructions for constructing one. Author Edwin Tappan Adney, born in 1868, devoted his life to studying canoes and was practically the sole scholar in his field. His papers and research have been assembled by a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
