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The Survival of the Bark Canoe (inscribed)
by MCPHEE, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374272077
- ISBN 13
- 9780374272074
- Seller
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About This Item
Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1975. Hbk, 2nd printing, 114pp of text and a 32pp unnumbered section of illustrs at the rear, INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper verso, dj faintly toned at the spine but unclipped ($7.95) and now in protective sleeve, fine embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles, slight unaccountable damage to rear endpapers (a closed tear at the center of the page), internally an excellent clean tight and unmarked copy, as new
Synopsis
In the small town of New Hampshire, Greenville, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is a telling of this ancient craft and a 150 mile trip through the Maine woods in these examples of prehistoric technology. The book is written in the traditions of the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose text The Maine Woods recounts a familiar journey in a similar vessel. McPhee describes the expedition with Vaillancourt, the evolution of the bark canoe from beginning through the development of the large canoes used by fur traders of the Canadian North Woods. He notes the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. Effortless as the waters of Maine, John Mcphee has written a fascinating book, one in which his mind as a journalist is on brilliant display.
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- Sutton Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Nat294
- Title
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe (inscribed)
- Author
- MCPHEE, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374272077
- ISBN 13
- 9780374272074
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1975
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1975
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