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050 0 0 _aVM353
_b.N48 2016
082 0 0 _a623.82/9
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100 1 _aNeuzil, Mark,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aCanoes : a natural history in North America
300 _axxxiv, 370 pages :
_billustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;
_c21 x 27 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 337-361) and index.
505 0 _aForeword. Scenes from a life in canoes / John McPhee -- Introduction -- Dugout canoes. Napolean Sanford -- Birch-bark canoes. Elm-bark canoes ; The oldest birch-bark canoe -- The fur trade. The Algonquin fur trade ; Frances Anne Hopkins -- All-wood canoes. Jule Fox Marshall -- Wood-and-canvas canoes. Tom Seavey ; Canoe sails -- Synthetic canoes. Canoe patents ; Canoes in wartime ; Square-stern canoes -- The human-powered movement. Paddles ; Canoe packs -- Canoe tripping.
520 _aAncient records of canoes are found from the Pacific Northwest to the coast of Maine, in Minnesota and Mexico, in the Southeast and across the Caribbean. Neuzil and Simms tell the story of that singular American artifact, so little changed over time: of canoes, old and new, the people who made them, and the labors and adventures they shared.
546 _aText in English.
650 0 _aCanoes and canoeing
_zNorth America
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aCanoes and canoeing
_xDesign and construction.
_964631
650 0 _aIndians of North America
_xBoats.
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655 7 _aHistory.
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700 1 _aSims, Norman,
_eauthor.
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700 1 _aMcPhee, John,
_d1931-
_eauthor of foreword.
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