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Sea Kayaker's Deep Trouble: True Stories and Their Lessons from Sea Kayaker Magazine
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This book is loaded with well told, detailed stories of paddling gone awry. Each story is followed by an instructive analysis of the situation--how the paddlers misjudged the conditions, how they might have avoided equipment failure, what training might have helped the situation, etc. It's all laid out in very practical terms that you could put to use ... »
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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
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I first saw this book in a store in Banff, at the tail end of a 10-day hiking trip through the Canadian Rockies. I didn't want to lug a book home, so I ordered through Amazon. Perhaps I like this book because I hiked a bit of the area it describes, but more important to me is the astonishing story of David Thompson by itself. To get from the east coast... »
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Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
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This book investigates a number of 18th-century voyages of discovery for a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the East Indies, a passage that took root in the imaginations of cartographers and explorers (and their sponsors) and would not die. Three voyages of discovery into Hudson Bay are examined - the voyage of James Knight, which disappear... »
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