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The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Bulletin (United States National Museum), 230.) Paperback – March 17, 1983

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Product Details

  • Series: Bulletin (United States National Museum), 230. (Book 230)
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Books; Reprint edition (March 17, 1983)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1560982969
  • ISBN-13: 978-1560982968
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.5 x 11 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,903,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Classic Work on Bark and Skin Craft
By H. Haider on December 20, 2000
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All modern students of bark and skin boats begin with this book. The intial work on the native watercraft of North America.
While the book does not cover the watercraft of all North American First Nations, it does provide a broad range of information on craft from many Nations across the continent.
This book is highy recommended to anyone interested in the history of canoes or kayaks as developed on the North American continent.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America
By A. Breiby on March 25, 2010
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Bark Canoes and Skin Boats, by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard Chapelle is THE classic on the subject. I first got a hardbound copy through the US Govt Printing Office back in 1974. The recent copy purchased through Amazon was a gift for a friend. Adney became interested in bark canoes back in the late 19th century when folks were still using them on a daily basis, so he was able to document them and subsequently make scale models of many of them. Chapelle was the curator of transportation at the Smithsonian Museum, and undoubtedly the best authority on traditional American boat types at the time of the book's publishing for both Euro-American and Native American development. If it weren't for him there is no doubt that knowledge of most of these craft would have died out. The skin boats contained in the volume have been recorded and measured from specimens in the Smithsonian and other museums, as well as from boats measured in the field. In addition to measured plans, there is excellent accompanying text on how the various boats were built and used. If you only wanted to get one book on this subject, this should be the one.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBuild your own.
By Fire Boy on January 25, 2011
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This book provided me the ability to build a number of the craft within its pages. This is the stuff that dreams are made of. If you are thinking of building a small wooden, canvas, or bark boat, these measured drawings will give you ample information to scale off, loft, and build one of the included designs or, alternatively, to design one of your own boats drawing from the information that has been faithfully passed down by Adney and Chappelle. A stunning compilation of indigenous wisdom.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHow many times have I read through this book, ...
By Josh on April 14, 2016
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How many times have I read through this book, more flipping from subject to subject than reading in a linear form forward, I cannot tell you. If you are a student of history, ethnography, boats, the settling of the Americas, Native culture and lifestyle, wilderness living, hunting, fishing, trapping, whaling, woodcraft, sustainable living, warfare, or just plain old craftsmanship, this book is for you. It should tell us something that John McPhee wrote a book about this book's author, Adney, who was a world-class curmudgeon. The next time someone tells you to fit in, to go along and get along, to stop thinking weird thoughts, think about Adney. He did not "fit in." He did things his way, for reasons that made sense only to him and a couple other people at the time, and today we have this incredible book that is a reflection of Adney's personal force. Yes, it is a book about home made boats, but it is also about the person who sought to capture that way of thinking before it sank beneath the waves of shallow modernism and mass production, Adney. Might Adney be a model to us all.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Book
By Nic on December 19, 2013
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I saw a recommendation for this book online and was glad I purchased it. This book is one of the only books I have been able to find (I searched for a long time) that has plans for an old fashioned war canoe. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in building a canoe.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTappan Adney
By Laurie Albrecht on January 17, 2013
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Tappan Adney is a relative thru my paternal genealogy side, and his canoes are in a New York museum.
Thought it would be nice to have his books for my children and grandchildren to read. Wish I could have gotten them in hard copy and one of the orginial printings.
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