A Canoeing & Kayaking Guide to Florida (Canoeing & Kayaking Guides - Menasha) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Elizabeth F. Carter (Author), John Pearce (Author), Lou Glaros (Author), Doug Sphar (Author)

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...reliable manual...does not skimp on details...most important distinction...is its maps...recently updated...clearly superior. -- SweetTea Journal, April, 2006

Product Description

A Canoeing and Kayaking Guide to Florida is the premier guide to paddling the waterways of Florida. Combining and expanding information from Volume I and Volume II, the updated guide features detailed river maps, critical river data, and descriptive narrative.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (September 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897325885
• ISBN-13: 978-0897325882
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #815,275 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book, you won't be disappointed, December 18, 2006

By	Bobo the Hobo "Bobo" (on the road carrying a neckerchief with a stick) - See all my reviews

I own this book and it does a great job covering the entire state's top paddling spots. The book breaks the state down into nine geographic sections and cover the rivers and spring-runs in the area with notes, a sketched map(drawn accurately from topo maps) and other info on the waterway being covered. This is the FIRST EDITION and there is a second edition supposedly coming out in April 2007, but I'm pretty sure both books contain the same info.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Canoeing & Kayaking Guide to Florida , August 13, 2006

By	Robb Webb (Lecanto Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There are a lot of rivers in Florida and this book does a good job of letting you know where they are and it also includes a short review on each river. I have paddled many of the rivers in the book and I find their reviews are very accurate.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars buy something else, February 25, 2007

By	Paddle Cat "PaddleCat" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

Maybe if you live in Florida you can make sense of these maps. There are no cities on them. If you're not from Florida, like me, they make no sense at all. Also, the distances he lists are sometimes self-contradictory. One of the maps shows the Pacific ocean. Last time I checked Florida is not near the Pacific. If this were the only fault with this book, it would be one thing, but I think it is just symbolic of the general quality of this book. I have only paddled on one of these rivers, which he lists as good paddling, but it is actually choked with fallen trees - you have to portage about every fifty feet.

If you want to know where you can paddle near some city in Florida this book is useless. You can't figure out what listed rivers are near that city. Even if you can figure out where these rivers are, he doesn't give you enough information to know which one you want to paddle on.