Canoeing Wild Rivers
The 30th Anniversary Guide to Expedition Canoeing in North America
5th Edition
Published on 1. March 2015
360 pages
978-1-4930-1480-4 (ISBN)
Description
The 30th Anniversary Edition of the classic Expedition Canoeinghas long been considered the premier guide to canoeing and exploring North America's waterways. This thirtieth-anniversary edition expertly details everything you need to know about paddling the continent's wild rivers.
Outdoors writer and wilderness canoe guide Cliff Jacobson draws on his thirty-plus years of river running to give you sound advice, fresh new ideas, and advanced techniques for canoeing in the wilderness. Completely updated and revised, inside you'll find dozens of full-color photos, how-to illustrations, source charts, canoeing and camping tricks, a chapter full of hard-won advice from more than twenty-five of Jacobson's fellow canoeing experts, and a brand new chapter devoted to paddling desert and swamp rivers.
Look inside to find:
How to pick a crew
Route and trip planning
Canoeing and camping gear
Navigating by map, compass, and GPS
How to deal with dangerous bears
Canoe hazards and rescue
Barren-land travel
Preparation and skills are everything when canoeing wild rivers. Take along this guide on all of your canoeing adventures.
Outdoors writer and wilderness canoe guide Cliff Jacobson draws on his thirty-plus years of river running to give you sound advice, fresh new ideas, and advanced techniques for canoeing in the wilderness. Completely updated and revised, inside you'll find dozens of full-color photos, how-to illustrations, source charts, canoeing and camping tricks, a chapter full of hard-won advice from more than twenty-five of Jacobson's fellow canoeing experts, and a brand new chapter devoted to paddling desert and swamp rivers.
Look inside to find:
How to pick a crew
Route and trip planning
Canoeing and camping gear
Navigating by map, compass, and GPS
How to deal with dangerous bears
Canoe hazards and rescue
Barren-land travel
Preparation and skills are everything when canoeing wild rivers. Take along this guide on all of your canoeing adventures.
Reviews / Votes
"Expedition Canoeing is a comprehensive resource for your next canoe adventure. Jacobson guides the reader through everything needed for a fun, safe, successful, and enviornmentally sound trip via canoe."-Tim Jackson, former editor, Canoe and Kayak magazine "Jacobson's knowledge of expedition canoeing runs deppers than the rivers he's paddled . . . "
-Eugene Buchanan, publisher/editor-in-chief, Paddler magazine
More details
Series
Edition
5th Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
Illustrations
30 Color Illustrations, 80 Color Photos, 5 Recipes
File size
34,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-1480-4 (9781493014804)
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Canoeing Wild Rivers
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05/2015
5th Edition
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Person
Cliff Jacobson is one of North America's most respected outdoors writers and wilderness canoe guides. He is a canoeing consultant, and the author of more than a dozen top-selling books on camping and canoeing. He lives in River Falls, Wisconsin.
