Canoe Atlas of the Little North
Title | Canoe Atlas of the Little North PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Berger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781550464962 |
The Little North, north of Superior between Lake Winnipeg and James Bay, is a historic area including over 20 major lake and river system. This oversized atlas reviews the area's geography and canoe routes and features 50 annotated topographical maps.
Back Blaze
Title | Back Blaze PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Berger |
Publisher | jonathan berger |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2014-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1500176737 |
Back Blaze is a memoir and a love story about wilderness canoeing. It is told through a fictional narrative in which Uncle Nick takes his 11 year old niece , 13 year old nephew, and a 13 year old friend on a 1200 mile wilderness canoe trip from the CNR tracks to Attawapiskat Post on James Bay. The trip takes place in the early sixties before great changes swept across northern Ontario.
A Paddler's Guide to Ontario's Lost Canoe Routes
Title | A Paddler's Guide to Ontario's Lost Canoe Routes PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Callan |
Publisher | Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Canoes and canoeing |
ISBN | 9781550464580 |
A guide to trips along Ontario's lesser-known waterways -- includes detailed trip descriptions, maps of all access points, accurate portage lengths, tips, advice, history, folklore and more.
Adirondack Paddler's Guide
Title | Adirondack Paddler's Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Cilley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) |
ISBN | 9780974632056 |
Covering the Saranac Lakes, St. Regis Wilderness Area, Santa Clara Tract, Five Ponds Wilderness, Whitney Wilderness, Raquette River & Cranberry Lake Wild Forest.
Alone Against the North
Title | Alone Against the North PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Shoalts |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0143193996 |
Winner of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario's 2016 Young Authors Award Winner of the 2017 Louise de Kiriline Award for Nonfiction The age of exploration is not over. When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he discovered surprised even him. Shoalts was no stranger to the wilderness. He had hacked his way through jungles and swamp, had stared down polar bears and climbed mountains. But one spot on the map called out to him irresistibly: the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a trackless expanse of muskeg and lonely rivers, caribou and wolf—an Amazon of the north, parts of which to this day remain unexplored. Cutting through this forbidding landscape is a river no explorer, trapper, or canoeist had left any record of paddling. It was this river that Shoalts was obsessively determined to explore. It took him several attempts, and years of research. But finally, alone, he found the headwaters of the mysterious river. He believed he had discovered what he had set out to find. But the adventure had just begun. Unexpected dangers awaited him downstream. Gripping and often poetic, Alone Against the North is a classic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common. But what does exploration mean in an age when satellite imagery of even the remotest corner of the planet is available to anyone with a phone? Is there anything left to explore? What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned “Canada’s Indiana Jones” and appeared on morning television. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts’s proof that the world is bigger than we think. Shoalts’s story makes it clear that the world can become known only by getting out of our cars and armchairs, and setting out into the unknown, where every step is different from the one before, and something you may never have imagined lies around the next curve in the river.
A Paddler's Guide to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Title | A Paddler's Guide to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area PDF eBook |
Author | Michael E. Duncanson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) |
ISBN |
Paddle to the Amazon
Title | Paddle to the Amazon PDF eBook |
Author | Don Starkell |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1994-09-03 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0771082568 |
It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime. When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had each paddled nearly twenty million strokes, slept on beaches, in jungles and fields, dined on tapir, shark, and heaps of roasted ants. They encountered piranhas, wild pigs, and hungry alligators. They were arrested, shot at, taken for spies and drug smugglers, and set upon by pirates. They had lived through terrifying hurricanes, food poisoning, and near starvation. And at the same time they had set a record for a thrilling, unforgettable voyage of discovery and old-fashioned adventure. "Courageous . . . Exciting and always immediate." -- The New York Times Book Review