The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee - 1975-08-03

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1975. Hardback. Good. Ex-Library. 1st Printing (Stated) GOOD Condition with usual markings. No dust jacket. Binding is sound and square. . . . . . . . In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He… Read More

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975-11-24. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing, price clipped, small closed tear on cover . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket Hardcover first printing original price ($7.95) on DJ flap . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

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