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Pub. Date
2010
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A memoir of Marion K. Stocking's canoe trip through the deep Maine woods, a century after Thoreau. Climbing Mount Katahdin in 1947 provides her with a baseline of untrammeled wilderness. On Katahdin her party has the mountain all to themselves as Thoreau did a century before: an experience of pure wilderness. This is a day-by-day account of her 1948 encounters with Maine woodsworkers for the new paper industry records a woods culture of humor and...
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Pub. Date
[1975]
Description
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...
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