A guide to Canoe Country -- Ontario's Quetico Provinical Park adjoining Wisconsin's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Includes detailed route descriptions, maps showing all access points, important river features and accurate portage lengths.

A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It's a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination? Come along--join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature's infinite wildness one summer up north.

"The year 2009 marked the Centennial anniversary of Quetico Provincial Park, a 4,760 sq.km. (1,800 sq.mi) area west of Lake Superior and north of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This magnificent landscape of over 600 lakes in the heart of North America is linked by an intricate web of rivers and trails, and forms one of the greatest paddling paradises on Earth. Let this book be an inspiration to planning your own adventure into Quetico's benevolent spirit."--Pub. desc.

Have you ever been on a real wilderness adventure? Have you ever wanted to go but didn't know where to start? Have you ever just been curious as to what it would really be like? Then this book is for you! Come along as the author, an experienced fisherman, but a canoeing and camping novice, joins three buddies on an eight-day odyssey, canoeing, camping, and fishing in the Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, bordering the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). He fumbles his way along, learning lessons the hard way while discovering the beauty and serenity of a true wilderness that can be tranquil and soothing one day, violent and angry the next.

Temagami, located in northern Ontario (five hours north of Toronto by car) is a world-renowned canoe tripping destination featuring over 4,000 square miles of canoe country. The waterways of the Temagami region are particularly attractive since many of the routes form convenient trip loops. Hap Wilson compiles more than 25 canoe route descriptions, including hiking trails that cater to wilderness paddlers from beginner to expert. Climb Maple Mountain, camp at Centre Falls, listen to the wolves howl, or fish its fabled deep waters -- Temagami has it all.

The first-ever biography of wilderness preservationist Ernest Oberholtzer, environmental pioneer, explorer, and caretaker of Minnesota and Ontario's boundary waters region.