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Features: 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
Includes 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
160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part II - The Emergence of Eldredge-McInnis; The Weather Side of Gaff Rig; A New Coaster - the schooner HERITAGE; The theft of RANDOM SCOOT; Building the first Lightning; The Folding Kayak; Folding Boats at Sea; LILY - a cabinetmaker's Whitehall comes to life; ISKRA sails down east; Seven Bends - 7 ways to tie lines together, even in slick synthetics; Building the Beetle Cats, Part III - fitting and bending frames; Damaged Planks - their repair and replacement. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Sharpie points and counterpoints; Two gold metal winners meet after half a century; SHEARWATER - a amphibious cat-ketch from California; The Outlook for World Timber; Guideboats from the ground up; Sardine Carriers - Part II; The Koa Canoe; - the Hawaiian dugout canoe tradition is alive; Sonny Hodgdon on Glues; The Case for Simple Edge-Gluing - do spines or dowels really add strength?; The Once and Future FOXY - one of Uffa Fox's 'proper-built' tenders; The Right Jaws for your Gaff and Boom; The art of finding your way - small-boat navigation; It's the Finishing Touches that preserve wire rope. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
164 pages. Features: Interview with Larry Dahlmer; ELLY - a Swedish treasure in America; A New Kag - building a trunnel-fastened traditional Swedish workboat; Sardine Carriers - Part I; AMARETTO - from the log of an old sardine carrier still earning her way; The Kodiak (Alaska) Kayak; The Hooper Bay Kayak - the last outpost of the authentic native kayak; Sailing a Tancook Whaler - one of the handiest gaff schooners afloat; Sophisticated wooden shipbuilding is alive and well in Wisconsin; The Wizzard of Speed - Spud Rowsell and his performance dinghies. Bending SPARTAN's frames - a scientific approach to steam-bending large frames. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
152 pages. Features: DYON - the symbol of summer for four generations; Albert Strange and the Canoe Yawl SHEILA; Quick Steps for Spring Painting - Part II; Building the Belles of the Western Rivers - a rare glimpse into the world of steamboat construction; Trout Unlimited - The Compleat Fly Fisherman; PILGRIM'S Progress - Dennis Holland's new Baltimore Clipper; Bagging the GULL - Constant Camber goes Mono - Part I; The Careful Creation of MELE KAI - Part II - the completion of a lovely double-ended cruising boat. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
152 pages. Features: Francis Herreshoff - Part I; A Close Look at Wood Screws, Part II; The Rebirth of WANDER BIRD; The disappearing propeller boat; Paddling like an ancient - a graceful and efficient Indian canoe stroke; The Willits Brothers Canoes - West Coast Classics; Ahoi Mench's Education in Wooden Boat Building; Cold-Molded Repairs for Laminated Boats - Laminating at Luders - A Luders-16 Rejuvination; A smooth and fair hull - the planking is finished but there's more to do before you paint; Grommeting. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
152 pages. Features: CHINA CLOUD - the boat as a way of life; The Butt Block chronicle continues; Resheathing a copper bottom; Mick Fahey and the North Woods way; The North Woods Paddle; Jerry Stelmok and the E.M. White canoe; Found plywood boats lead to serious boatbuilding; The steamboat ECHO; Air-Drying Your Lumber - Part II; The creation of LA FILLE D'OR; Hatches and other Deck Joinery; The Concordia Yawl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part III - The Years of Achievement; A Close Look at Wood Screws, Part I; Chris White and his Multihulls; The Schooner AMERICA; Canoe Building in Vermont - Tom Hill, Carl Bausch and Ed Sturges; Just the Right Medium - Ken Bassett chooses plywood for his recreational rowing craft; Keeping a Wooden Hull From Drying Out; Winter Protection for outside-stored boats; Auxiliary Power - experiences with gas and diesel; STAR - the boat of Frederick S. Ford Jr. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
124 pages. Features: The New York Thirties; Preservation and the Richardson Boat Owner's Association; EMME; Alternatives to the Lumber Yard; Putting Down Roots - your own woodlot; The Backbone - Part III - getting it upright and ready for ribbands; The Restoration of the STANLEY NORMAN - rebuilding a working skipjack between seasons; Marine Batteries - Part II - installing and maintaining battery systems; A Core Sound Sharpie; Seizing Hanks - step-by-step instructions; California's Ancient Canoe - the heritage and rebirth of the tomol; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: John Gardner - in his own words; Keeping the Water Out; San Francisco's Two Oldest Rowing Clubs; Basque Racing Sculls; Voga is again in vogue - Venice gest people back in the water; The Riverside Boat Company brings a 12 1/2 back up to its standards; PASTIME; Singlehanding an Old Gaffer - rigging ISKRA for ocean crossings; The plight of the canoe people; Ray Speck and the Sid Skiff; Sons of Hitches - more imporvements on a cylinder; Wooden ship building in World War I; Fixing a leaky shaft log. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
152 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
Broch?. 128 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Plastic comb binding. 5 3/4"w x 8 1/2"h. 221 pages, plus index. First edition, limited # 690/1000. Black and white photos and illustrations.
159 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
in-8°,, 167 pp, 90 figures in texte, 4 pages de photo hors texte n/b, broche, couv. illustree. Bon etat (papier jauni). [HA-1]
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
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
Fine English Paperback., Fine., 21 x 15 cm., [v], 50 p., "Zeolit arastirmalari Türkiye bibliyografyasi.", I. Ersan Kalafatoglu ve digerleri, Tübitak Matbaasi, Ist., 2002.
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
in-16°, 220 pp, broche, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire. [FEN]
Mm 295x215 Collana "I libri di Oasis". Volume cartonato rigido di 64 pagine, numerose immagini a colori entro il testo. Esemplare in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: France on the Prairies; Potlatch in the Park - photo-illustrated article on potlatch held in new Kwakiutl house built in Victoria's Thunderbird Park; Journey for Frances - 2nd instalment of Mrs. George Simpson's canoe journey of 1930 through two of the Great Lakes and on to the post later named Fort Frances; Wings Across Greenland - between 1928 and 1931 Parker D. (Shorty) Cramer made three attempts to fly across the Atlantic by way of northern Quebec and Greenland - photo-illustrated article; Early Northern Surgeons - article concerning some of the earliest predecessors of Dr. John Rae in Rupert's Land; Dr. John Rae and his Franklin Relics - photo-illustrated article; Dr. John Rae of the Arctic - short biography of the great explorer; John Rae's Stone House - photo-illustrated article on the ruins of Rae's winter house of 1846-7 near Repluse Bay; Rae's Arctic Correspondence - a review of the new volume of the Hudson's bay Record Society; Rae on the Eskimos - his opinions on the Arctic natives among whom he lived and travelled between 1846 ande 1854; The Old Shipwreck - mystery ship has lay wrecked on the north shore of Bylot Island for 130 years; Cobalt and Porcupine - how the great silver and gold mines of Northern Ontario were discovered and developed; Early Days at York Fort; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage 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
