Expedition Canoeing, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide to Canoeing Wild Rivers in North America (Falcon Guides Canoeing) (Paperback)

by Cliff Jacobson (Author)

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Expedition Canoeing is the premier guide to canoeing and exploring North America's wilderness rivers. This updated 20th anniversary edition covers route and trip planning, paddling and camping gear, dealing with bears, canoe hazards and rescue, barren-land travel, and much more.

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Expedition Canoeing has long been considered the premier guide to canoeing and exploring North America's waterways. This twentieth-anniversary edition expertly details everything you need to know about paddling the continent's wild rivers.
Outdoors writer and wilderness canoe guide Cliff Jacobson draws on his thirty-plus years of river running to give you sound advice, fresh new ideas, and advanced techniques for canoeing in the wilderness. Inside you'll find dozens of black-and-white and color photos, how-to illustrations, source charts, canoeing and camping tricks, and a chapter full of hard-won advice from more than twenty-five of Jacobson's fellow canoeing experts.
Preparation and skills are everything when expedition canoeing. Take along this guide on all of your canoeing adventures.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Falcon; 4th edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076273809X
• ISBN-13: 978-0762738090
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #256,320 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but very specific, February 22, 2006

By	William A. Nolan "freeholder" (Willcox, AZ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book was interesting to read and very informative. Do be aware that it is very specific for canoeing on Arctic rivers, and is much less applicable to warmer climes.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable Planning Resource, November 16, 2005

By	Clarke Green "CAG" (Kennett Square, PA USA) - See all my reviews

Anyone planning a canoe trip of a few days or a few weeks will benefit from studying the advice given in this book. As a person who has spent some time in the wilderness I appreciate Jacobson's careful treatment of the subject: he offers solid, tested techniques and then points out the many ways things could go wrong. He uses stories form his considerable experience to illustrate how important it is to plan carefully, not to compound mistakes and thereby opens up the possibilities of canoeing in some incredibly wonderful places.

There is a section devoted to accounts of expeditions by different authors that serve to inspire and inform planning. A very engaging and thorough book, the premier one on the subject.