Snow Shoes and Canoes
Author : William H. G. Kingston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3861951975
Author : William H. G. Kingston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3861951975
Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1876
Category :
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Author : George Moore Fairchild
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Fishing
ISBN :
Author : Thomas M. Wickman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108659314
Snowshoe Country is an environmental and cultural history of winter in the colonial Northeast, closely examining indigenous and settler knowledge of snow, ice, and life in the cold. Indigenous communities in this region were more knowledgeable about the cold than European newcomers from temperate climates, and English settlers were especially slow to adapt. To keep surviving the winter year after year and decade after decade, English colonists relied on Native assistance, borrowed indigenous winter knowledge, and followed seasonal diplomatic protocols to ensure stable relations with tribal leaders. Thomas M. Wickman explores how fluctuations in winter weather and the halting exchange of winter knowledge both inhibited and facilitated English colonialism from the 1620s to the early 1700s. As their winter survival strategies improved, due to skills and technologies appropriated from Natives, colonial leaders were able to impose a new political ecology in the greater Northeast, projecting year-round authority over indigenous lands.
Author : Gil Gilpatrick
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781565234857
Traditional snowshoes and the art of making them is alive and well in Gilpatrick's authoritative book on the topic. Readers learn how to make a variety of snowshoes and furniture made in the snowshoe style using updated materials. Detailed plans and patterns are included.
Author : Edwin Tappan Adney
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 19,62 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.
Author : Gil Gilpatrick
Publisher : Delorme Mapping Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2002-10
Category : Boatbuilding
ISBN : 9780899333496
Includes directions for building eight different canoes plus a helpful list of resources for lumber, tools, etc. 100+ photographs & illustrations.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 16,74 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 : Gil Gilpatrick
Publisher : Gil Gilpatrick
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Furniture making
ISBN : 9780965050739
Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher :
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1901
Category : United States
ISBN :