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Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key
ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a
political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous
cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert
conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices,
and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses,
this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure
and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life.
Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe
expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe's
relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism,
environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe
as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in
the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and
ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost
everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both
affects and is affected by complex political and cultural
histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been
born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the
mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this
volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and
interpret not only our physical environments, but also our
histories and present-day societies.
Known internationally as "the Bible of canoe building,"
Canoecraft is back, and it's bigger and better than ever. The
best-selling how-to guide has been completely revised and expanded,
and master canoe builder Ted Moores again infuses the pages with
the experience and wisdom acquired over almost three decades. His
step-by-step instructions, generously illustrated with new
photographs and diagrams and incorporated into an accessible fresh
design, will allow even the beginner to create a reasonably priced
classic. North America's leading builder of woodstrip/epoxy canoes,
Moores is a longtime teacher of wooden-boat construction as well.
With students who have ranged in age from 11 to 87, Moores has
discovered that all have been motivated by the same dream: to build
something beautiful and functional.
Canoecraft is the road map to that dream. In it, Moores offers
comprehensive instructions for the first-time builder and, with the
second-time builder in mind, includes a larger variety of canoe
plans -- five of which are brand-new. In this edition, each plan is
presented as a traditional table of offsets. Moores has also added
a series of builder's tips and new techniques and an entire chapter
on carving a paddle, the perfect accompaniment to your handcrafted
canoe. His message is straightforward: When good materials are used
and simple steps performed with care, professional results are sure
to follow.
Whether your goal is to build a general-purpose recreational
canoe, an efficient modern tripping canoe or a full-decked
fast-cruising canoe with walnut veneer, Canoecraft can help you
make it happen.
In August 1998 Kim Trevathan summoned his beloved 45-pound German
shepherd mix, Jasper, and paddled a canoe down the Tennessee River,
an adventure chronicled in Paddling the Tennessee River: A Voyage
on Easy Water. Twenty years later, in Against the Current: Paddling
Upstream on the Tennessee River, he invites readers on a voyage of
light-hearted rumination about time, memory, and change as he
paddles the same river in the same boat-but this time going
upstream, starting out in early spring instead of late summer. In
sparkling prose, Trevathan describes the life of the river before
and after the dams, the sometimes daunting condition of its
environment, its banks' host of evolving communities-and also the
joys and follies of having a new puppy, 65-pound Maggie, for a
shipmate. Trevathan discusses the Tennessee River's varied
contributions to the cultures that hug its waterway (Kentuckians
refer to it as a lake, but Tennesseans call it a river), and the
writer's intimate style proves a perfect lens for the passageway
from Kentucky to Tennessee to Alabama and back to Tennessee. In
choice observations and chance encounters along the route,
Trevathan uncovers meaningful differences among the Tennessee
Valley's people-and not a few differences in himself, now an older,
wiser adventurer. Whether he is struggling to calm his land-loving
companion, confronting his body's newfound aches and pains, craving
a hard-to-find cheeseburger, or scouting for a safe place to camp
for the night, Trevathan perseveres in his quest to reacquaint
himself with the river and to discover new things about it. And,
owing to his masterful sense of detail, cadence, and narrative
craft, Trevathan keeps the reader at the heart of the journey. The
Tennessee River is a remarkable landmark, and this text exhibits
its past and present qualities with a perspective only Trevathan
can provide.
Since its establishment as a federally protected wilderness in
1964, the Boundary Waters has become one of our nation's most
valuable-and most frequently visited-natural treasures. When Amy
and Dave Freeman learned of toxic mining proposed within the area's
watershed, they decided to take action-by spending a year in the
wilderness, and sharing their experience through video, photos, and
blogs with an audience of hundreds of thousands of concerned
citizens. This book tells the deeper story of their adventure in
northern Minnesota: of loons whistling under a moonrise, of ice
booming as it forms and cracks, of a moose and her calf swimming
across a misty lake. With the magic-and urgent-message that has
rallied an international audience to the campaign to save the
Boundary Waters, A Year in the Wilderness is a rousing cry of
witness activism, and a stunning tribute to this singularly
beautiful region.
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