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Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America

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The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birch bark, were among the most highly developed of manually propelled primitive watercraft. Built with Stone Age tools from materials available in the areas of their use, their design, size, and appearance were varied so as to create boats suitable to the many and different requirements of their users. The great skill exhibited in their design and construction shows that a long period of development must have taken place before they became known to white men. The Indian bark canoes were most efficient watercraft for use in forest travel; they were capable of being propelled easily with a single-bladed paddle. This allowed the paddler, unlike the oarsman, to face the direction of travel, a necessity in obstructed or shoal waters and in fast-moving streams. The canoes, being light, could be carried overland for long distances, even where trails were rough or nonexistent. Yet they could carry heavy loads in shallow water and could be repaired in the forest without special tools. Bark canoes were designed for various conditions: some for use in rapid streams, some for quiet waters, some for the open waters of lakes, some for use along the coast. Most were intended for portage in overland transportation as well. They were built in a variety of sizes, from small one-man hunting and fishing canoes to canoes large enough to carry a ton of cargo and a crew, or a war- party, or one or more families moving to new habitations. Some canoes were designed so that they could be used, turned bottom up, for shelter ashore... Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse; Reprint edition (August 13, 2016)


Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 13, 2016


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 9971 KB


Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled


X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled


Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • How many times have I read through this book, ...
How many times have I read through this book, more flipping from subject to subject than reading in a linear form forward, I cannot tell you. If you are a student of history, ethnography, boats, the settling of the Americas, Native culture and lifestyle, wilderness living, hunting, fishing, trapping, whaling, woodcraft, sustainable living, warfare, or just plain old craftsmanship, this book is for you. It should tell us something that John McPhee wrote a book about this book's author, Adney, who was a world-class curmudgeon. The next time someone tells you to fit in, to go along and get along, to stop thinking weird thoughts, think about Adney. He did not "fit in." He did things his way, for reasons that made sense only to him and a couple other people at the time, and today we have this incredible book that is a reflection of Adney's personal force. Yes, it is a book about home made boats, but it is also about the person who sought to capture that way of thinking before it sank beneath the waves of shallow modernism and mass production, Adney. Might Adney be a model to us all. UPDATE: April, 2021 I am reading other reviews that say this book has no drawings or pictures, and I don't know what happened, but my 1983 Smithsonian edition is loaded with drawings and photos, even detailed drawings of how to sew walrus hide onto an umiak frame (page 186). My edition lists 224 illustrations in the book, most of them very detailed drawings of each type of boat. If your version does not have the detailed drawings, then you were sold the wrong book. Something went wrong. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2016 by PAmtnman
    • Very small print makes it difficult to read
Print extremely small
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 2023 by carrigah
    • Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America
Bark Canoes and Skin Boats, by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard Chapelle is THE classic on the subject. I first got a hardbound copy through the US Govt Printing Office back in 1974. The recent copy purchased through Amazon was a gift for a friend. Adney became interested in bark canoes back in the late 19th century when folks were still using them on a daily basis, so he was able to document them and subsequently make scale models of many of them. Chapelle was the curator of transportation at the Smithsonian Museum, and undoubtedly the best authority on traditional American boat types at the time of the book's publishing for both Euro-American and Native American development. If it weren't for him there is no doubt that knowledge of most of these craft would have died out. The skin boats contained in the volume have been recorded and measured from specimens in the Smithsonian and other museums, as well as from boats measured in the field. In addition to measured plans, there is excellent accompanying text on how the various boats were built and used. If you only wanted to get one book on this subject, this should be the one. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2010 by J. Breiby
    • Well put together
The information in the book is wonderful. Only drawback is many of the images are too dark to see clearly, especially if you are hoping to use as source material for your own build
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 6, 2019 by Amazon Customer
    • Lots of knowledge, poor print quality
The book is incredible rich i wording details. The authors have been very skilled and knowledged. Unfortunately the figures suffer from poor printing quality. Photographs, all of which given in black and white, are of poor quality, coarse-grained, low contrast, and several of them are due to this of almost no value. Even some of the many detailed technical drawings suffer from low printing quality, so details like words or measurements cannot be seen. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2017 by Amazon Customer
    • Book had no diagrams or pictures.
Book had no diagrams or pictures only text. Though text references figures and diagrams on numetous pages. Waste of money
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2023 by Amazon Customer
    • Human achievement at its best
This is an amazing history of the most important tools, if you will, of transportation that allowed the settling of the continent. Where would we be without the accessibility they provided us? I bought a second copy as a gift for a friend Both copies were fabulous bargains and in wonderful condition that was better than described Highly recommended ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2019 by Jaroca2
    • Source material
The prime source for the history and construction of bark canoes. Extensively illustrated with historical photographs.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 18, 2021 by Amazon Customer

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