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The Lure of Faraway Places

Herb Pohl
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Author : Herb Pohl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770706972

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The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl’s words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten River on July 17, 2006. He is remembered as "Canada’s most remarkable solo traveller." While mourning their loss, Herb Pohl’s friends found, to their surprise and delight, a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk in his lakeside apartment in Burlington, Ontario. He had hoped one day to publish his work as a book. With help and commentary from best-selling canoe author and editor James Raffan, Natural Heritage is proud to present that book, Herb’s book, The Lure of Faraway Places. "There’s nothing like it in canoeing literature," says Raffan. "It’s part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history."

Nastawgan

Bruce W. Hodgins,Margaret Hobbs
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Author : Bruce W. Hodgins,Margaret Hobbs
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987-06-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781554882380

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Nastawgan by Bruce W. Hodgins,Margaret Hobbs Pdf

A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, "an utterly compelling collection," said The Globe and Mail, and "a gem – it absolutely sparkles," according to Canadian Geographic. Declared by the Canadian Historical Association to be the best book published of its year on the regional history of Canada’s North. With essays by William C. James, C.E.S. Franks, George Luste, Margaret Hobbs, John Jennings, Shelagh Grant, Gwyneth Hoyle, Bruce W. Hodgins, Jamie Bendickson, Craig Macdonald, Jean Murray Cole, John Marsh and John Wadland.

Blockades and Resistance

Bruce W. Hodgins,Ute Lischke,David T. McNab
Blockades and Resistance Book PDF

Author : Bruce W. Hodgins,Ute Lischke,David T. McNab
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889207752

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Blockades and Resistance by Bruce W. Hodgins,Ute Lischke,David T. McNab Pdf

This book examines Aboriginal resistance movements on Canada, focussing especially on the Temagami and Oka blockades.

Temagami Lakes Association

Pamela Sinclair
Temagami Lakes Association Book PDF

Author : Pamela Sinclair
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781426967627

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Temagami Lakes Association by Pamela Sinclair Pdf

The Temagami region of northern Ontario has been a magnet for recreational canoeists since the 1890s, when city dwellers began embarking on long, gruelling trips to reach its unfettered wilderness. The land is steeped in the history of its tribal inhabitants, the Teme-Augama Anishnabai (TAA), whose roots are 6,000 years deep. At the turn of the 20th century, the TAA still hunted on their traditional family territories, trading pelts at the Hudson's Bay Company post on Bear Island. The railway arrived in 1904, easing travel from all over North America. Steamships conveyed passengers to all five arms of the lake where rustic resorts and youth camps were popping up. Soon, the village of Temagami became a tourism hub. Logging and mining would later diversify the economy. The province of Ontario began leasing the lake's more than 1,200 islands in 1906. In 1931 cottagers united against logging near the mainland shoreline under the Timagami Association banner, now the Temagami Lakes Association. Temagami is the only Ontario lake where mainland shoreline development is banned Temagami Lakes Association: The Life and Times of a Cottage Community recounts Temagami's history to 2011, and examines the Association's often convoluted, occasionally controversial, relationships with the TAA, various levels of government, villagers and within its own ranks. The narrative is lightened by cottagers' tales of mice invasions, flesh-embedded fish hooks, encounters with big screen stars, cabin construction gone awry and the like. More than 150 photos enliven the text.

Nastawgan

Bruce W. Hodgins,Margaret Helen Hobbs
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Author : Bruce W. Hodgins,Margaret Helen Hobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0969078331

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Nastawgan by Bruce W. Hodgins,Margaret Helen Hobbs Pdf

14 essays, each focussing on a different aspect of wilderness travel in the Canadian North. The authors review the early explorations of the north, the origins and development of recreational canoeing, the wilderness traveller's motives, the meaning of 'The North' and its impact on Canadians.

Paddling Partners

Bruce W. Hodgins,Carol Hodgins
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Author : Bruce W. Hodgins,Carol Hodgins
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781459721333

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Paddling Partners by Bruce W. Hodgins,Carol Hodgins Pdf

Carol and Bruce Hodgins began leading canoe trips in 1957 for Camp Wanapitei on Lake Temagami in Northern Ontario, initially to the great rivers of that region and on into Quebec. Their first venture north of 60 found them on the South Nahanni, soon to be followed by the Coppermine River, and by the 1990s their annual tripping took them to the Soper River on Baffin Island. included with their richly descriptive accounts of wilderness travel with groups of people, are kayak adventures in Baja California, Mexico, and the Queen Charlottes, paddling in and near the Everglades and explorations on Heritage rivers in the Maritimes and along the coast of Newfoundland. Few have personally experienced the breadth of wilderness travel in Canada as have the Hodgins husband-and-wife team. Their fifty years as "paddling partners," a legendary achievement, is a story of shared joys, challenges, triumphs and mishaps, delightfully told and augmented by excerpts from daily logs, historical insights and the tidbits of experience gleaned over the years.

Nipissing

Françoise Noël
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Author : Françoise Noël
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459724402

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Nipissing by Françoise Noël Pdf

The Lake Nipissing area is best known as a voyageur route between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay visited by explorers, missionaries, and fur traders. All of these travellers, however, were on a journey elsewhere. This book focuses on the less well-known story of the area's transformation into a tourist destination between 1875 and 1955.

Inheriting a Canoe Paddle

Misao Dean
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Author : Misao Dean
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442661769

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Inheriting a Canoe Paddle by Misao Dean Pdf

If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification’s unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with an engaging, personal style, it is both a scholarly examination and a personal reflection, delving into representations of canoes and canoeing in museum displays, historical re-enactments, travel narratives, the history of wilderness expeditions, artwork, film, and popular literature. Misao Dean opens the book with the story of inheriting her father’s canoe paddle and goes on to explore the canoe paddle as a national symbol – integral to historical tales of exploration and trade, central to Pierre Trudeau’s patriotism, and unique to Canadians wanting to distance themselves from British and American national myths. Throughout, Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes as objects and to canoeing as an activity.

The Canoe in Canadian Cultures

Bruce W. Hodgins,John Jennings,Doreen Small
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Author : Bruce W. Hodgins,John Jennings,Doreen Small
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770707030

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The Canoe in Canadian Cultures by Bruce W. Hodgins,John Jennings,Doreen Small Pdf

The canoe is a symbol unique to Canada. One of the greatest gifts of First Peoples to all those who came after, the canoe is Canada’s most powerful icon. Within this Canexus II publication are a collection of essays by paddling enthusiasts and experts. Contributing authors include: Eugene Arima, Shanna Balazs, David Finch, Ralph Frese, Toni Harting, Bob Henderson, Bruce W. Hodgins, Bert Horwood, Gwyneth Hoyle, John Jennings, Timothy Kent, Peter Labor, Adrian Lee, Kenneth R. Lister, Becky Mason, James Raffan, Alister Thomas and Kirk Wipper.

Canexus

James Raffan,Bert Horwood
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Author : James Raffan,Bert Horwood
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781459727755

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Canexus by James Raffan,Bert Horwood Pdf

A symbol unique to Canada, the canoe is one of the greatest gifts of First Peoples to all those who came after.

The Poetry of John Milton

Gordon Teskey
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Author : Gordon Teskey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674286764

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The Poetry of John Milton by Gordon Teskey Pdf

For sublimity and philosophical grandeur Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe. Gordon Teskey shows how Milton’s aesthetic joins beauty to truth and value to ethics and how he rediscovers the art of poetry as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for the world as it can be.

Grey Owl and Me

Hap Wilson
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Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781459704886

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Grey Owl and Me by Hap Wilson Pdf

Hap Wilson is back for another journey, this time on the lighter side of the adventure trail, where the bizarre melds with the sublime. Nurtured by the writings of Canadian environmentalist and wannabe-Native, Grey Owl, Wilson adopted a lifestyle similar to the 1930s conservationist but with his own twists and turns along a meandering path full of humorous misadventures. Wilson, too, learned many of his nature skills as a youth, paddling in Temagami, working as a wilderness canoe ranger and guide, and following in the footsteps of one of Canada’s most revered outdoor icons. The author recounts early days winter camping, motorcycling the Labrador coast, and teaching actor Pierce Brosnan how to throw knives and paddle a canoe for the Richard Attenborough film about Grey Owl. He also takes us to a few of his favourite places and shares intimate secrets of wilderness living. Here, Grey Owl has returned as an ever-present critic – a buckskin-clad spectre in a modern world of Gore-Tex, Kevlar canoes, and gear freaks.

Five Billion Years of Solitude

Lee Billings
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Author : Lee Billings
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698137684

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Five Billion Years of Solitude by Lee Billings Pdf

“A definitive guide to astronomy’s hottest field.” —The Economist Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our planet has been the sole living world in a vast and silent universe. But over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of “exoplanets,” including some that could be similar to our own world, and the pace of discovery is accelerating. In a fascinating account of this unfolding revolution, Lee Billings draws on interviews with the world’s top experts in the search for life beyond earth. He reveals how the search for exoplanets is not only a scientific challenge, but also a reflection of our culture’s timeless hopes, dreams, and fears.

Flowers in the Snow

Gwyneth Hoyle
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Author : Gwyneth Hoyle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803273444

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Flowers in the Snow by Gwyneth Hoyle Pdf

Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889?1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals, she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading schooners and coast-guard vessels in Alaska. When necessary, she journeyed by snowshoe or sled in pursuit of her botanical specimens, accompanied only by strangers who served as guides. In Flowers in the Snow, Gwyneth Hoyle paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time.

Hap Wilson's Wilderness 3-Book Bundle

Hap Wilson
Hap Wilson s Wilderness 3 Book Bundle Book PDF

Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459743052

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Hap Wilson's Wilderness 3-Book Bundle by Hap Wilson Pdf

Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from firsthand experience that nature can neither be beaten or tamed.This three-book bundle includes: The Cabin: A Search for Personal Sanctuary Noted environmentalist Hap Wilson takes us along a wilderness trail replete with snags and pitfalls, through mishaps, tears, and laughter. Grey Owl and Me: Stories From the Trail and Beyond Hap Wilson is back for another journey. Nurtured by the writings of Grey Owl, Wilson adopted a similar lifestyle to the 1930s conservationist but with his own twists and turns. Wilson recounts the early days of winter camping, takes readers to some of his favourite places, and shares intimate secrets of wilderness living. Trails and Tribulations:Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder Noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. A park ranger, canoe guide, and environmental activist, Wilson takes the reader on a journey through natural settings ranging from austere to mysterious and breathtaking.