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1976218 pages including index. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams, and cartoons. A unique paddling guide by a who's who of the sport's foremost experts. Discusses: canoe technique; kayak technique; raft technique; canoe sailing; ocean surfing; canoe poling; family camping; white water sport; wilderness travel; racing; boat types; conservation; history. Bonus: directory of canoe clubs. A very well worn copy which is unmarked and remains intact. Book
199518 page board book. Undated. Perhaps 1995? Ten little Indians paddle their canoe. Look inside and you will see what all these Indians will do! Well worn copy of this charming work. Child's name on page two else unmarked. Yellow cloth loosening from base of spine. Top right corner of last two boards well worn. Book
1971159 pages including black and white photographic plates. An excellent copy of this journal. Norman Luxton made history crossing the Pacific in the Indian dugout canoe Tilikum, went on to found the Banff newspaper, Crag and Canyon, and devoted the rest of his life to developing Banff as a mountain playground and to assisting the Indians. Contents very clean and square. Brown boards show light wear. Dust jacket has half-inch tear to top edge of front panel and very light edge wear. Book
1927237 pages including index. With illustrations from thirty-two photographs. Spine missing. Past moisture exposure to bottom inch of book resulted in fading to that portion of blue cloth boards and very light staining to contents which are otherwise mildly yellowed and in good condition. Hinges intact. Minimal markings. Very good reading copy. Book
200156 pages. Features: Around the world by canoe - the voyage of the Tilikum; The Customs scandal of 1926 - rumrunning and corruption nearly topple a government; A portrait of Tom Longboat; Growing a garden in Labrador; Mifflin Gibbs and the critical black vote in colonial B.C.; Scandal at Red River - the vicar, the servant girl, and the trial; Fuss and furor over daylight saving time. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
1934Stories: Canada's Puzzle-People; Captured by Indian Brigands; My Record Canoe Trip; The Fan-Tan Girl; Paru's Wireless; The Clue of the Single Fingerprint; Number Two; Bowen's End; Horse's Neck; Escaped from Devil's Island; When Greek Meets Greek; The Manhunt; The Lost Treasure of the Gilt Dragon. Above-average wear. Spine ends taped. Ink stamp to front cover. Book
1934Stories: Death Rides with the Mounties; My Record Canoe Trip; The Girl World Tramp; The Desert Will Get Me; The Were-Tiger; When Rats Go West; My Wife; Kidnapped; The Clue of the Single Finger Print; Confessions of a Smuggler; The Ways of a Rogue; Special Circumstances; Man-Lion; Jackaroo. Above-average wear. Book
1932Stories: Taming the Beaver; The Fool Afoot in the Baltic; The Snake Man; Two Million Pounds or Nothing;; Ten to One; the Bracelet; Across the Sulu Sea; The Adventures of a Revenue Officer; Mentugi; A Canoe and some Crocodiles; By Night in Singapore. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1984Features: California's first canoe; Black coral off Cozumel; Coral Crab Showdown; Past and Present merge in the storied Strait of Messina; buried alive!; Of men and waters - the Mariner's Museum at Newport News; Thieving Dolphins a growing problem in Hawaii's fisheries; Ferdinand Magellan - the greatest voyager of then all; The mating game. Sound copy. Book
1953Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
1952Features: The Envelope - The author worked in the wilds of British Columbia on a ranch where he was involved with a mix-up involving illegal whisky-peddlers and a shrewd policeman; Tough and Go - a boundary dispute in the former Italian Somaliland; The Mariba Affair - an account of an experience in Rhodesia; Seeking the Amazon's Source - Sebastian Snow and John Brown clear up the mystery beyond any reasonable doubt - photos; The Strangest House in Iceland; Timber Laden Round the Horn - a windjammer adventure; Banda Makes a Speech - a story from Ceylon; Australia's Black Trackers; Tough Prospector Breaks Curse of Lost Creek Mine, British Columbia (facsimile of news clipping); Where Adventure Beckons - a 300 mile canoe trip though Southern Ontario and Northern Minnesota, by Austin H. Phelps; Mahoney's Folly - a wierd story from Ireland related by a doctor; and more. Chipping to backstrip. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
1952Features: The Envelope - the author worked on a British Columbia ranch where he became involved in a mixup with illicit whisky-peddlers and a shrewd policeman; Touch and Go - a story from Somaliland; The Mariba Affair - a tale from the days of the South African Police in Rhodesia; Seeking the Amazon's Source - Sebastian Snow and John Brown succeeded in clearing up the mystery beyond any reasonable doubt, with several photos; Timber-Laden Round the Horn - a windjammer adventure; Banda Makes a Speech; Australia's Black Trackers; Where Adventure Beckons - a 300 mile canoe trip through southern Ontario and Northern Minnesota; Mahoney's Folly - A weird little story from Ireland; and more. Each cover partially loose. Openings to backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
1907Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1981Features: A wilderness canoe trip in September - pickerel, portages, loons and longjohns by Judy Lord; Autumnfest - the magic and mystery of the season; Fuel (Oil and Gas) in the Arctic - the moral and ethical issues; Blackbird Roosting behaviour - fascinating and infuriating; Frank de Matteis - pockets of nature in watercolour. Clear tape along spine. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1998Features: "Probably the most beautiful Rowboat afloat" - The Form and Meaning of the St. Lawrence Skiff; "The Featherweight and the Backwoods" and the evolution of the pack canoe; Reassembly of a Sixteenth-Century Basque Chalupa; Recent Advances in Ship History and Archeaeology, 1450-1650 - Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studies; The Amsler Integrator and the Burden of Calculation; Snagboats and "Dead-Heads" - Interpreting History Onboard the W.T. Preston; Le Marco Polo, un navire canadien de renommee mondiale au milieu du XIXe siecle; Boat Models, Buoys and Board Games - Reflecting and Reliving Watermen's Work; Culture Materielle et niveaux de richesse chez les pecheurs de Plaisance et de l'ile Royale, 1700-1758; Emotion as Document - Death and Dying in the Second World War Art of Jack Nichols; "You Paint Me a Ship as is Like a Ship" - The Verkin Ship Portraits; Mi-marins, mi-mages - caracteres de l'univers magico-religieux des pecheurs et des gens de mer du littoral tyrrhenien; Les objets du rite - le bapteme de la Ligne; Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven - the Phenomonon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond; Recent Media Treatment of the Titanic Tragedy; Edutainment and the Museum - a cautionary tale; plus 10 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
1995176 pages including index and glossary. Tells you everything you would need to know to build an authentic baidarka in your basement or garage for a fraction of what it would cost to buy an assembly line plastic boat. Provides clear, step-by-step, extensively illustrations to guide you through the process - from buying materials, tailoring the boat to fit your body, building the frame and deck, and sewing the skin. Also provides instructions for building a paddle, sewing your own paddling jacket and spray skirt, making repairs, and *using* your baidarka. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Scratch to front cover. A sound copy. Book
1929Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
192984 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
197116 pages. Colour photos throughout. Printed on glossy stock. Appears to be circa 1971. Features: Deepsea Canoe - George Tocher and David Moon and their voyage aboard the native-style vessel Orenda to Hawaii - article with photos; Aspenite sales; Non-masonary fireplaces; The Hutterite Way - they choose Aspenite for the new farm buildings at their Morinville colony northwest of Edmonton; New K3 Woodgrains. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1958Features: Old Silvertip - story of a grizzly by Robert Savery of Victoria, B.C.; You Can Make a Birch Bark Canoe - article with helpful photos; Let's Make a Holster for Your Handgun - photo-illustrated instructions; Why are Retrievers so Popular? - article with photo of Blyth's Queen of Spades, owned by Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Copeland of Grimsby, Ontario; Lost Hunter; Canadian Gunners Superb; Is Yours a "Hot" Gun?; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1957Features: Boat High with Hyrofoils - article with great photos - "New Sea Wings Lift Boat, Motor and All Out of Water - Gives Smoother and Faster Riding"; What Kind of Boat do You Want to Buy?.. Now What Kind of Motor?; What's Ahead in Boating?; Photo illustrating why government-approved life preservers need by used; List of items required by government regulation to be taken on power driven pleasure boats; Should I Bother Painting? - add years of life to your boat; Nice photo ad for the Canadian Canoe Company of Peterborough, Ontario; Trout do come Big in July - Silver Springs Lodge, South River, Ontario; Do You Like Bugs?; Sedge Night in British Columbia, by H. Mortimer Batten of Kamloops, B.C.; How to Get Those Bass?; Two Ways to Hunt Woodchuck; Handmade Canadian Free Rifle Design; The Hungarian Vizsla - article with photo of "Elza Von Schloss Loosdorf" owned by Stephen Brunyanski of St. Catherines, Ontario; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1993152 pages. Features: Choosing and Building a Kayak; Interior Redesigns; Why Ships Hog; Edson B. Schock; Restoring a Scots Zulu; The Spirit of Singlehanded Racing; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reference copy. Book
2010144 pages. Features: Core Sound, North Carolina Workboats; Atkin's Rescue Minor; Silver-Soldering; A Practical Portlight; Defending Against Lightning; Build a 16-30 Sailing Canoe; Timm and Rescue Minor; Cape Henry 21; The Transformation of two Bunker and Ellis lobsterboats; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reference copy. Book
1923Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1960Features: How Toronto's 2,500-man police force really works - a rare behind-the-scenes look by Chief James Mackey; Gisele Mackenzie - My Perilous Plunge into the Big Time; I went to Florida - by Canoe! - Ward Seeley; A Rare Peak at Russian Art - many colour illustrations; A visit with Patricia Joudry and John Steele; How Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater conquered the New World. Middle page loose but present. Half of page nine, most likely an ad, has been removed. Unmarked. Average wear. Book