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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Boating > Canoeing & kayaking

Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker's Tall Tales Volume 7: A Kayaker's Tall Tales: (Paperback): John Boeschen Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker's Tall Tales Volume 7: A Kayaker's Tall Tales: (Paperback)
John Boeschen
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, Thursday nights are reserved for kayaking on the bay. Islands, bights, caves, and more . . . no corner of the bay and its history are left unexplored. While the tales in this volume chronicle only the paddles in 2010, they are part of a longer time flow, starting in 2000. Better than any travel guide on San Francisco Bay, these volumes capture the flavor of one of the world's most renown bodies of water.

Around One More Point - A Journal of Paddling Adventures (Paperback): Mary Gazetas Around One More Point - A Journal of Paddling Adventures (Paperback)
Mary Gazetas
R448 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R57 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Around One More Point" is a journal sketchbook of writings, photographs and drawings that capture the adventures of B.C. artist and paddler Mary Gazetas, who has journeyed with family and friends on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Inside Passage and Haida Gwaii for almost 25 years. This work, with its powerful visual imagery, includes stories and art created when Mary first started taking ocean canoe trips in the '80s with her twin sister and her children. Since those pre-Gore-Tex days of primitive beach camping and paddling in all kinds of weather, the trips, the people and the artwork have changed.What hasn't changed, though, is her passion for the character of the coast, and she returns every summer, bringing home material to be transformed into a variety of artistic expressions. The journeys include paddle trips in Barkley, Clayoquot, Nootka and Kyuquot sounds, the Broughton Archipelago, the central coast and Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands). This evocative journal will take readers on a journey, inspiring some to go to these beautiful places themselves-to go around one more point.

Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker' Tall Tales (Paperback): John Boeschen Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker' Tall Tales (Paperback)
John Boeschen
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, Thursday nights are reserved for kayaking on the bay. Islands, bights, caves, and more . . . no corner of the bay and its history are left unexplored. While the tales in this volume chronicle only the paddles in 2010, they are part of a longer time flow, starting in 2000. Better than any travel guide on San Francisco Bay, these volumes capture the flavor of one of the world's most renown bodies of water.

Canoe Traveling - Log of a Cruise on the Baltic and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes (Paperback): Warington... Canoe Traveling - Log of a Cruise on the Baltic and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes (Paperback)
Warington Baden-Powell
R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker's Tall Tales (Paperback): John Boeschen Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker's Tall Tales (Paperback)
John Boeschen
R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, Thursday nights are reserved for kayaking on the bay. Islands, bights, caves, and more . . . no corner of the bay and its history are left unexplored. While the tales in this volume chronicle only the paddles in 2010, they are part of a longer time flow, starting in 2000. Better than any travel guide on San Francisco Bay, these volumes capture the flavor of one of the world's most renown bodies of water.

The Ultimate Canoe Challenge - 28,000 Miles Through North America (Paperback): Brand Frentz The Ultimate Canoe Challenge - 28,000 Miles Through North America (Paperback)
Brand Frentz; As told to Verlen Kruger
R510 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Verlen Kruger and Steve Landick came up with the idea of a canoe trip that would surpass all others, and they did it. Paddling their canoes or carrying them on the connecting land passages, they toured North America, from Montana to Manhattan, from New Orleans to the Arctic Ocean, from Baja California to home in Lansing, Michigan.

They mastered wild storms on the ocean, often paddled 75-100 miles or more in a day, shot through deadly rapids going downstream, and paddled up several major rivers, reaching the climax by going up the Grand Canyon. Again and again they were warned, "It can't be done" or "You'll never make it," but each time they rose to the challenge and kept going, finally completing a canoe trip of 28,000 miles that lasted three and a half years and was appropriately named "The Ultimate Canoe Challenge." This is the story as Verlen lived it.

Canoe Traveling - Log of a Cruise on the Baltic and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes (Hardcover): Warington... Canoe Traveling - Log of a Cruise on the Baltic and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes (Hardcover)
Warington Baden-Powell
R1,066 Discovery Miles 10 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker's Tall Tales (Paperback): John Boeschen Reflections on San Francisco Bay - A Kayaker's Tall Tales (Paperback)
John Boeschen
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tall Tales of kayaking on San Francisco Bay.

Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois - Apple River to Zuma Creek (Paperback): Bob Tyler Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois - Apple River to Zuma Creek (Paperback)
Bob Tyler
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book you will find descriptions of over 1500 miles on 59 rivers and creeks in Northern Illinois.

You will also discover the Indian villages and early settlers and their stories.

The author spent over ten years exploring these unique watersheds. From the "Mighty Mississippi" to smallest canoeable creek, it has all been covered in "Canoeing Adventures in Northern Illinois."

40,000 Miles in a Canoe (Paperback, Edited ed.): John Voss 40,000 Miles in a Canoe (Paperback, Edited ed.)
John Voss
R549 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R28 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Sailors Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail



The incredible story of Captain John C. Voss, who, in 1904, completed a three-year journey across three oceans in a Native American dugout canoe converted to sail.


Canoeing the Driftless - A Paddlers Guide for Southeastern Minnesota (Paperback): David J. Lind Canoeing the Driftless - A Paddlers Guide for Southeastern Minnesota (Paperback)
David J. Lind
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sea Kayaking Maryland's Chesapeake Bay - Day Trips on the Tidal Tributarie and Coastlines of the Western and Eastern Shore... Sea Kayaking Maryland's Chesapeake Bay - Day Trips on the Tidal Tributarie and Coastlines of the Western and Eastern Shore (Paperback)
Michael Savario, Andrea Nolan
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Chesapeake Bay watershed covers 64,000 square miles and drains parts of six states and Washington, DC. Along with its 400-plus rivers and creeks, the Chesapeake boasts 4,600 miles of tidal shoreline suitable for kayaking. Sea kayaking is booming in the Chesapeake region, and the state of Maryland is fully supporting paddlers in finding access and creating routes and safe places to explore. This new guide will describe dozens of trips along the Eastern and Western shores, in the Bay proper, and in its tributaries. Trip descriptions will include important information on put-ins and take-outs, winds, and currents, equipment, paddling techniques, and safety issues. The authors enliven their instruction with informative sidebars on topics such as salt marsh ecology, wildlife, and social and maritime history. They also touch on low-impact paddling techniques, hypo/hyperthermia awareness, and many other paddling-related topics.

Canoecraft - An Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Ted Moores Canoecraft - An Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Ted Moores
R651 R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Kayaking the Keys - Fifty Great Paddling Trips in Florida's Southernmost Archipelago (Paperback): Kathleen Patton Kayaking the Keys - Fifty Great Paddling Trips in Florida's Southernmost Archipelago (Paperback)
Kathleen Patton
R505 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The definitive guide to kayaking the Florida Keys."--Jeff Klinkenberg, St. Petersburg Times

"The author has gone to great lengths to provide the necessary details to make kayaking in the Keys easy."--James Bell, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge

Spanning the 200-mile stretch of the Florida Keys, this field guide to the entire island chain highlights 50 paddling adventures, many for canoeists as well as kayakers. Trips include short paddles suitable for beginners and children, half-day trips as well as day-long and overnight excursions.
Kathleen Patton provides an overview of the region's environment, describing its terrestrial and marine habitats. She covers equipment needs, safety concerns, weather patterns, and adapting tide tables for specific areas. Trips are arranged geographically, beginning near Miami at the top of the Keys in Biscayne National Park and stretching 73 miles past Key West to Dry Tortugas National Park. Each profile includes directions to the launch site, estimated paddling time, kayak rental availability, a detailed itinerary, and a route map. Icons mark each route's particular strengths: for example, great snorkeling, historical interest, camping, and appropriate trips for canoeists and for children. Patton also directs paddlers to the best reefs, swimming holes, and pristine sandbars for wildlife viewing--birds, manatees, dolphins, tropical reef fish, coral heads, sponges, sea stars, and huge spotted eagle rays.

Clear, concise trip descriptions and detailed maps make "Kayaking the Keys" the most complete guide for paddlers of all ages and abilities who want to explore the only tropical waters in America that are accessible by automobile.
Kathleen Patton is program coordinator for Florida Keys Discovery, a nonprofit community education project.

Paddling The Tennessee River - A Voyage On Easy Water (Paperback, illustrated edition): Kim Trevathan Paddling The Tennessee River - A Voyage On Easy Water (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Kim Trevathan
R642 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In late August 1998, Kim Trevathan and his dog, Jasper, set out by canoe on a long, slow trip down the 652 miles of the Tennessee River, the largest tributary of the Ohio. Trevathan wanted to experience the river in its entirety, from Knoxville's narrow, winding channel, which flows past rocky bluffs, to the wide-open waters of Kentucky Lake at its lower end.
Over the course of the five-week voyage, Trevathan rediscovered the people and places that made history on the Tennessee's banks. He crossed the path of the explorer Meriwether Lewis along the Natchez Trace, noted the sites of Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War battles, and passed Hiwassee Island, the spot where a teenaged runaway named Sam Houston lived with Cherokee Chief Jolly.
Trevathan also came to know the modern river's dwellers, including a towboat pilot, two couples who traded in their landlocked homes for life on the river, a campground owner, and a meteorologist for NASA. He placed his life in the hands of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lock operators as he and Jasper navigated the river's nine dams.
Paddling the Tennessee River is a powerful travel narrative that captures the river's wild, turbulent, and defiant past and confronts what it has become--an overused and overdeveloped series of lakes. But first and foremost, the book is the story of a man and his dog, riding low enough to smell the water and to discover the promise of a slow river running through the southern heartland.
The Author: Kim Trevathan, who earned his M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Alabama, works as a new media writer and producer and writes a column for the Maryville Daily Times. His essays and short stories have been published in The Distillery, New Millennium Writings, The Texas Review, New Delta Review, and Under the Sun. He lives in Rockford, Tennessee.

Seat with a View - Inside the 1996 U.S. Olympic Men's Crew (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Steven Segaloff Seat with a View - Inside the 1996 U.S. Olympic Men's Crew (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Steven Segaloff; Conducted by Mike Spracklen
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From a Wooden Canoe - Reflections on Canoeing, Camping, and Classic Equipment (Paperback, First): Jerry Dennis From a Wooden Canoe - Reflections on Canoeing, Camping, and Classic Equipment (Paperback, First)
Jerry Dennis; Illustrated by Glenn Wolff
R495 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jerry Dennis has earned a reputation as one of the finest writers on nature and the outdoors in America today. Now in From a Wooden Canoe, he turns his attention to old passions and discovers new reasons to appreciate them.

This engaging collection explores the quintessential American sports of canoeing and camping and pays tribute to the things worth keeping, from wooden canoes to pocket knives to cast-iron skillets. At a deeper level, it is about respect - for our possessions, for the natural world, for ourselves - and about the pleasures of a life well spent.

From a Wooden Canoe is a celebration of the good things and the simple pleasures of life outdoors. It is a book to be treasured, to be read on winter evenings and rainy afternoons, and to be kept handy on a cabin shelf.

Paddling Cape Cod - A Coastal Explorer's Guide (Paperback): Shirley Bull, Fred Bull Paddling Cape Cod - A Coastal Explorer's Guide (Paperback)
Shirley Bull, Fred Bull; Foreword by Nancy Church; Illustrated by Phyllis Evenden
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A paddling guide designed for canoeists and kayakers who want to explore the Cape's rivers, marshes, and shoreline and learn about the region's natural history. Paddling the Cape's waterways is the best way to see its wildlife and to understand the ever-changing forces of sand, tide, and wind that define this land-and it's a perfect way to escape the crowds. The authors are experienced paddlers who own a canoe and kayak touring business. Full of natural history, this guide also has practical details, like where and when to go; tides, currents, and safety considerations; and information about where boats can be rented. This guide is endorsed by Cape Cod Museum of Natural History.

Nahanni Trailhead - A Year in the Northern Wilderness (Paperback): Vivien Lougheed Nahanni Trailhead - A Year in the Northern Wilderness (Paperback)
Vivien Lougheed
R805 R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Save R139 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
River of Mountains - A Canoe Journey down the Hudson (Paperback, New Ed): Peter Lourie River of Mountains - A Canoe Journey down the Hudson (Paperback, New Ed)
Peter Lourie
R526 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half is a true river with strong current, but the lower half is tidal, a sunken river from the days of glaciers. In its first 165 miles, it drops more than 4,000 feet to Albany. The second half falls no more than a foot. Lourie's account of his trip is a fresh look at one of America's great and complex waterways, one of the few, in fact, that still contains its historical and biological species of fish. It is also the longest inland estuary in the world. Henry Hudson called it the "great river of the mountains." Nowadays, too often the Hudson is stereotyped as a ruined, polluted industrial river. its glorious past is compared to its present neglect. In River of Mountains, Peter Lourie combines the Hudson's rich history and descriptions of some of the region's most impressive landscape with the residents of its mill towns, the loggers, commercial fishermen, and barge pilots - all of whom are proof that the river is still a thriving, vital waterway.

Kayaking the Vermilion Sea (Paperback): Waterman Kayaking the Vermilion Sea (Paperback)
Waterman
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With two slender sixty-pound kayaks, a ten-pound medical kit, twenty pounds of books, triple-digit temperatures, and no contact with the outside world, Jonathan and Deborah Waterman spent two months paddling through the violent tides and storms that define the mythically charged Sea of Cortes. Amid the lore and romantic past of the Baja they discovered that what began as a mutual exploration would soon become an unforgettable test of will.

Exhilarating and lyrical, filled with images of death, beauty, and adventure, this paradisiacal journey depicts the past and present of a legendary body of water -- and the struggle of a man and a woman to find each other.

Canoeing and Kayaking Ohio's Streams - An Access Guide for Paddlers and Anglers (Paperback): Richard Combs, Stephen E.... Canoeing and Kayaking Ohio's Streams - An Access Guide for Paddlers and Anglers (Paperback)
Richard Combs, Stephen E. Gillen
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As well as being a comprehensive guide to the many rivers and streams in the state, Canoeing & Kayaking Ohio's Streams includes chapters on water safety, paddling instructions, how to read and rate white water, and even tips for paddling with children. For each of over 45 rivers in the state, you will find suggested stopover point for natural and human history, information on potential hazards and portages, detailed maps with river miles and car shuttle miles from access points, and listings of game-fish for each waterway.

The Complete Whitewater Rafter (Paperback, Ed): Jeff Bennett The Complete Whitewater Rafter (Paperback, Ed)
Jeff Bennett
R631 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R43 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the manual endorsed by professional guides, instructors, and recreational river runners everywhere. With comprehensive step-by-step coverage starting with the first run, it includes tips from top guides, outfitters, and instructors, plus the most complete guide to Class V rafting techniques ever assembled. This is the completely revised and updated successor to Bennetts best-selling manual, Rafting!.

Canoes and Kayaks for the Backyard Builder (Paperback): Skip Snaith Canoes and Kayaks for the Backyard Builder (Paperback)
Skip Snaith
R746 R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Save R68 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Coves of Departure - Field Notes from the Sea of Cortez (Paperback): John Seibert Farnsworth Coves of Departure - Field Notes from the Sea of Cortez (Paperback)
John Seibert Farnsworth
R470 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a book that has been called "a love song to nature," the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. While much of the book narrates his experience as a writing professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago each year during spring break, the book also reflects on experiences with a condor restoration project in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, and an altogether different teaching experience based in a field station on Bahia de los Angeles. While the author's intent is to evoke Baja ecologies in fresh ways, the reader comes to realize that he's also describing how education can become a transformational experience. A retired scuba instructor who turned to academics and went on to receive his college's highest teaching award, Dr. Farnsworth believes that education should be a lifelong adventure, and that explorations of the natural world should be animated by reverence and delight.

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