Laurie Gullion, expert canoeist, teaches women how to get on the water with little frustration. This comprehensive guide includes learning the basic strokes...probem-solving tips...solo strategies...planning river trips...transporting the boat... and more. Add the personal stories of women canoeists, and Canoeing is guaranteed to increase the reader's confidence and pleasure in the sport.
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"""This book is inviting with sound instructional
sequences. Excellent balance in the presentation of the sport and recreation of paddling."""
Dave Harrison
Editor in Chief, Canoe magazine
"""A great beginner's book. . . . Enjoyable and memorable."""
James R. Abel, MD
Wilderness canoe guide, Senior staff physician, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"""Canoeing will help bring the activity of canoeing into the 21st century."""
Kim P. Whitley
Outdoor specialist, instructor, Department of Kinesiology, The College of William and Mary
" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"""This book is inviting with sound instructional
sequences. Excellent balance in the presentation of the sport and recreation of paddling."""
Dave Harrison
Editor in Chief, Canoe magazine
"""A great beginner's book. . . . Enjoyable and memorable."""
James R. Abel, MD
Wilderness canoe guide, Senior staff physician, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"""Canoeing will help bring the activity of canoeing into the 21st century."""
Kim P. Whitley
Outdoor specialist, instructor, Department of Kinesiology, The College of William and Mary
" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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""This book is inviting with sound instructional
sequences. Excellent balance in the presentation of the sport and recreation of paddling.""
Dave Harrison
Editor in Chief, Canoe magazine
""A great beginner's book. . . . Enjoyable and memorable.""
James R. Abel, MD
Wilderness canoe guide, Senior staff physician, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
""Canoeing will help bring the activity of canoeing into the 21st century.""
Kim P. Whitley
Outdoor specialist, instructor, Department of Kinesiology, The College of William and Mary
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This book taught me everything I know...about canoeing, anyway.,
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In 1999 and 2000--as a young, adventure-crazed hippy--I spent six-and-a-half months circumnavigating the entire 1,960-miles shoreline of Lake Powell, in Utah and Arizona, in a beat-up Old Town-Tripper. I canoed the shores of every river arm, every bay, every canyon, and every cove. I lived mainly on brown rice, experienced terrifying waves and windstorms, spent weeks of the winter in crushing solitude, and months of the summer dodging drunken jet-skiers.
For over six months, canoeing was my life, and this book was my only instructor. I had no clue what I was doing, but in a matter of days, studying this book and following its advice, I was able to meet every challenge nature could offer. My next planned trip is a long kayak paddle along the entire chain of Aleutian Islands...and I'll be taking a Laurie Gullion book with me then, as well. Probably her book on coastal sea kayaking--and next time I'll practice more. If you're interested in canoeing, get this book. It will tell you all the basic strokes you need to know, and give you good advice on safety and equipment.
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I can still see the tiny log cabin as clearly as the narrow brook that runs past its front porch, although I have not returned to that special corner of the North Maine Woods in 17 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stern paddler, bow paddler, catch position, rotate your torso, paddling straight, swamped canoe, canoeing experience, turning strokes, high brace, capsized canoe, paddle shaft, shaft arm, rescue skills, reverse sweep, draw stroke, car rack, cross draw, switch style, forward stroke, forward sweep, grip hand Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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I can still see the tiny log cabin as clearly as the narrow brook that runs past its front porch, although I have not returned to that special corner of the North Maine Woods in 17 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stern paddler, bow paddler, catch position, rotate your torso, paddling straight, swamped canoe, canoeing experience, turning strokes, high brace, capsized canoe, paddle shaft, shaft arm, rescue skills, reverse sweep, draw stroke, car rack, cross draw, switch style, forward stroke, forward sweep, grip hand Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Canoe Association, New Hampshire, American Whitewater, Becky Mason, United States, Alban Station Blvd, Marge Shepardson, Nantahala Outdoor Center, Fifth Ave, Girl Scout, Greenfield Community College, Mason Bill, North Carolina, Path of the Paddle, Physical Disabilities, Ragged Mountain Press, Rio Grande New!
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- Path of the Paddle: An Illustrated Guide to the Art of Canoeing by Bill Mason on page 120, page 121, and page 122
- Roughing It Elegantly: A Practical Guide to Canoe Camping by Patricia J. Bell on page 90, and page 120
- A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe by J. MacGregor on page 6, and page 120
- The Joy of Family Camping by Herb Gordon on page 120
- North America (Visual Geography) by G.H.C. Waters on page 120
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