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Author: Susan T. Audette
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780884482031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Outstanding archival photographs, many never before published, show canoes under construction, canoes underway, canoes being pitched off the factory roof, and everything from log drives to summer camps.
Author: Mike Elliott
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780994863300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Old Town Canoe Co., Old Town (Me.)
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nick Offerman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0698138325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Edwin Tappan Adney
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2007-10-17
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1602390711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Eddy Harris
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998-09-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780805059038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.
Author: Patrick F. Chapman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006-05-25
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0786425733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For half a century Earl and Floyd Willits built some of the world's finest canoes, first near Artondale, Washington, then on Day Island, right off of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Turning out approximately twenty canoes a year, carefully logging and numbering each one, the brothers emphasized quality and design rather than volume. Willits Brothers Canoe Company earned a reputation that enabled the tiny company to compete successfully with businesses much larger, leaving a name and legacy which is still admired by canoe aficionados today. Carefully researched and documented, this combination biography and company history tells the story of Earl and Floyd Willits and their unique canoe company. Beginning with their family's westward migration from Illinois, it follows the brothers as they set about starting the business that would become their lifelong work. Close attention is given to the Willitses' business management and construction techniques as well as their personal lives. Interviews with surviving contemporaries and family members add a personal dimension to the Willitses' story. Appendices include a detailed company logbook, instructions from the Willits brothers on various areas of canoe use and maintenance, a price list of canoes from 1928 to 1964 and a list of serial numbers and dates of manufacture. In addition, a price comparison with the Old Town Canoe Company, a listing of museums exhibiting a Willits Brothers canoe, two Willits Brothers Canoe company catalogs and various plans of Willits canoes are provided. Contemporary photographs from the Willits family collection are also included.
Author: Kathryn Hilliard Klos
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781492746911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Morris Canoe: Legacy of an American Family recounts the story of a family whose skills helped build the emerging American nation, culminating in the creation of a company that contributed to a future in which the paddling sports are an important aspect of recreation.
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1982-05-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0374708592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
