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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Read more
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 21, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 178 pages
ISBN-10 : 1533376026
ISBN-13 : 22
Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.41 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,787,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #38,784 in Classic Literature & Fiction
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Customer Reviews: 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
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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.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2010 by J. Breiby
Buy it, read it, enjoy it if you are interested in historical canoe design.
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025 by x
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
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2016 by PAmtnman
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
I have heard of this book for years, always described with wonderful drawings. Some of the reviews of the current paperback note that the drawings and photos are not high quality. My copy, received today, has NO pictures or drawings of any kind or quality. There are numbered paragraphs that appear to describe pictures, but no pictures to be found. I bought this book because I am interested in Skin On Frame canoes, but I think it will be of little use. For $10 I don't think I'll bother to return it.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2017 by John Sand
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2017 by Amazon Customer
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
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Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2019 by Jaroca2