Canoes the World Over
Author | : Terence Thomas Quirke |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Canoes & Canoeing |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Terence Thomas Quirke |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Canoes & Canoeing |
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Author | : John M. MacFarlane |
Publisher | : Harbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2019-09-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1550178806 |
Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.
Author | : Quentin Rees |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2008-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445610442 |
The gripping story of the development of the Cockleshell Canoes.
Author | : Ted Moores |
Publisher | : Firefly Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9781552093429 |
Back in print: A revised second edition of a classic how-to book on canoe building. The new edition is updated to include advances in glues and techniques since the original was published, as well as five new canoe plans, builder tips and paddle carving.
Author | : Tod Bolsinger |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830873872 |
Do you ever feel that you are leading in uncharted territory? Pastor and consultant Tod Bolsinger draws on decades of expertise guiding churches and organizations in this expanded practical leadership resource, offering illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective church leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world.
Author | : Kenneth Brower |
Publisher | : Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 168051279X |
“The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name.” --Chicago Sun-Times “Brower’s superbly written book clutches at one’s imagination.” --Publishers Weekly “In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats.” --Kirkus Reviews Originally published in 1978, The Starship and the Canoe is the remarkable story of a father and son: Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son George, a brilliant high school dropout, lives in a treehouse and is designing a giant kayak to explore the icy coastal wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Author Kenneth Brower describes with stunning impact their lives and their visions of the world. It is a timeless tale framed by modern science, adventure, family, and the natural world.
Author | : Terence Thomas Quirke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Canoes and canoeing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Canoe racing |
ISBN | : 9780958655408 |
Author | : Eugene Yuji Arima |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9781554070800 |
A comprehensive history of North American canoe traditions.
Author | : Jill Dickin Schinas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780956072221 |
When their old GRP yacht was devastated by a Southern Ocean storm, Jill Schinas and her husband, Nick, resolved to build something stronger. Gaily, - and without having researched the matter to the least degree -they threw themselves into the work of designing and constructing the ultimate, ocean-proof, eco-friendly, dream cruising yacht. On their side they had a wealth of sailing experience, which provided a perfect knowledge of what was required, but their only other weapons were irrepressible enthusiasm and the mindset which enables a man to build a radio from a potato or a mast from a lamppost. Had this been a business enterprise no bank would ever have lent the capital, for ranged against the dreamers was a whole battery of forces any one of which would have deterred more realistic people. For a start, neither Jill or Nick had any experience with a welder - and yet they were proposing to build a steel boat. Secondly, they seemed only to have enough money to buy a couple of masts and the sails. Worst of all, they had two kids and a new baby in tow - and no one with a young family ought to attempt anything more ambitious than the washing up. Regardless of these drawbacks, Nick and Jill went ahead. "It'll only take a year and a half," said he, confidently. Fifteen years down the line, Mollymawk is afloat and the family have cruised all over the Atlantic; but the boat is still not finished. This is the tale of what went wrong and what went right. Packed full of advice about such things as ocean-worthy design and sail plans, it will also tell you how to operate a cutting torch, how to avoid a leaky stern-gland, how to pour your own rigging sockets, how to handle a ferocious gander, how to sandblast, how to weld in mid-Atlantic, how to amuse three young children in a cabin space the size of a phone booth... and much, much more besides.