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Features: 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
Stories: 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
Stories: 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
Features: 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
8vo [21 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 322, [ii, ads] pp, frontis, many illustrations including full-page, 5 maps. original pictorial cloth with gilt picture of author in small boat, gilt lettering on spine, spine label removed, internal hinges cracked but firm, bookplate on endpaper, light marginal stain on few leaves, else interior quite good and clean. A picture of 'Excellent account of people, social conditions, economics and political life but is of special significance on natural history' (Bruns - Angling Books of the Americas 164). Not in Sabin or Howes. His sneak-box was a small duck hunters' boat that looked like a row-boat. The author had also written 'Voyage of the Paper Canoe.' A classic American travel.
8vo [21 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 322, [ii, ads] pp, frontis, illustrations including full-page, 5 maps. original pictorial cloth with gilt picture of author in small boat, gilt lettering on spine, internal hinge cracked but firm, spine ends slightly frayed, colored map of Mississippi from other source (c. 1915) on endpaper, near fine, clean copy. A picture 'Excellent account of people, social conditions, economics and political life but is of special significance on natural history' (Bruns - Angling Books of the Americas 164). Not in Sabin or Howes. His sneak-box was a small duck hunters' boat that looked like a row-boat. The author had also written 'Voyage of the Paper Canoe.' A classic American travel.
40 pages. Features: Profile of Woodturner Maurice Gamblin; Make Your Own Canoe Paddle; A Jig for Slotting Louvre Stiles; Biscuit Joinery and the Hobbyist Woodworker; Cutting Melamine; Hand Planing - a Bracket-Foot Base; Preparing Wood for Finishing; Sanding Small Parts; New Product - DoveTape; Woodworking Incunabula; The Enfield Inch (Rule) is featured on back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A lovely copy of this fine Canadian woodworking publication. Magazine
Features: Highway to Canoe Country - one of Ontario's newest roads leads to the well-established town of Atikokan and Steeprock Mine in Northwestern Ontario; Five Ways to 'Do' the Rockies; The Woodcarvers of Port Joli - Route 2 on the south shore of the St. Lawrence; Twin Brothers, Twin Trucks - The Robertson brothers, Dave and Phil, from near Niagara Falls and their 1948 1/2-ton pickup trucks customized with early truck caps for storage and sleeping, all for less than $50.00!; Those Road Maps, by Lillian Allison. Two-inch opening at bottom of cover fold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: "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
Features: Across the U.S.S.R. - U.S./Soviet Transcycle; Northern Siberia by Canoe and Catamaran; The Dolgan and Nganasan Peoples - Aborigines of Northern Siberia; In the Central Arctic - The Baillie River Expedition; The Efe - Fathers of the Forest; Heinrich Harrer - Medalist '92 Explorer/Photographer. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
6 pages. Lovely color cover artwork. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: 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
Includes: Oh! Mr. Porter; 'E Dunno Where 'E Are; We Won't Go Home Till Morning; We've Been Touching 'Em Up a Bit!; For Me! For Me!; Paddle Your Own Canoe; Wink the Other Eye; Can't Stop!; Villikens and his Dinah; Our Hands have Met but not our Hearts; Sing us an Irish Song; I'm One of the Jays; What Will Your Answer Be?; They're After Me; Dear Old Pals; Tommy Make Room for Your Uncle. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy working copy. Book
256 pages. Includes colour map showing route. Chronicles of the author depicting his transcontinental traverse via canoe from the Labrador Sea to the Bering Sea from 1967 to 1982. A clean copy with little wear. Sound binding. Book
237 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
Features: African Scenes by William R. Leigh - basis for dioramas in the African Hall of AMNH; Plane Search on the Greenland Ice Cap; Our Geologic Legacy - continents that drift; Two-Continent Canoe Expedition - Canoeists Valerie Fons Kruger and Verlen Kruger; Retracing Henry Field's 1927 Arabian Expedition; Beyond the Wallace Line - biogeography travels of Flag 172. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
286 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Set against the backdrop of northern lights and barren lands, the story of Ted Nagle's life is rich in anecdote, adventure and intrigue. Born in Hay River in 1898, the son of a free trader, Nagle became a key player in the race to own the north's vast mineral resources. As he moved forward by canoe, on foot, and then by bush plane, Nagle recorded the personalities and events he found 'down to north'. His careful observations reflect the natural and social history north of 60 degrees in the first third of the twentieth century." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings and prior owner's address label upon front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A beautiful copy. Book
27 pages. Features: Iroquois cultural history carved in stone; Arts Safety; Interview with Ron Noganosh - Will the Canoe Ever Look the Same?; Back to School for Native Artists and Artisans; Photo of Joe Jacobs receiving Order of Canada; Visual Cadence - Rebecca Belmore at Club Saw; and more. Average wear. Bit of writing on page 23, otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
279 pages. Index. Signed by both authors upon half-title page. Oblong 10" x 12". Wonderfully illustrated in colour and black and white. Printed on glossy stock. "The authors have done full justice to the romance of the canoe and its exciting role in the opening of our continent. Comprehensive and richly illustrated, this extraordinary volume - literally the work of a lifetime - will be hailed as the definitive book on the canoe." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy. Book
16 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
Book is in excellent condition with heavy weave red covers sprinkled with gold, gilt lettering at cover and spine. As new, no flaws. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only, one nick at edge. Full page b&w illustrations. Six Native American stories: Bird of good luck, Raven gets the oolikan, Revenge fo the wolf prince, Ghost canoe people, Reluctant adventures of porcupine and beaver, The true adventures of John Jewitt, who was captured by the Indian whalers. 162 pages.
64 pages. Articles include: Taiga - the earth's green mantle; South Moresby by kayak; Madawaska - a land ethic in the making; Bay du Nord; Alaska 1002; special report on 50 books important to conservation. Magazine
144 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
206 pages with black and white photos and line drawings. Describes author's travels through Labrador by snowshoe and kayak. A tremendous reading adventure. Book
298 pages. "During the summers of 1991 through 1994 Victoria Jason kayaked 7,500 kilometres in some of the most difficult conditions in the world." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. An excellent copy. Book
