Search  for anything...
NA

The Canoe: An Illustrated History

  • Based on 4 reviews
Condition: Used - Good
Checking for the best price...
$8.34 Why this price?

Buy Now, Pay Later

As low as $2 / mo
  • – 4-month term
  • – No impact on credit
  • – Instant approval decision
  • – Secure and straightforward checkout

Ready to go? Add this product to your cart and select a plan during checkout.

Payment plans are offered through our trusted finance partners Klarna, PayTomorrow, Affirm, Afterpay, Apple Pay, and PayPal. No-credit-needed leasing options through Acima may also be available at checkout.

Learn more about financing & leasing here.

Free shipping on this product

This item is eligible for return within 30 days of receipt

To qualify for a full refund, items must be returned in their original, unused condition. If an item is returned in a used, damaged, or materially different state, you may be granted a partial refund.

To initiate a return, please visit our Returns Center.

View our full returns policy here.

Availability: Only 1 left in stock, order soon!
Fulfilled by Better World Books: West
Arrives Sep 3 – Sep 8
Order within 19 hours and 29 minutes
Available payment plans shown during checkout

Recently Viewed

Description

A beautifully illustrated history of one of North America's most enduring cultural symbols and recreational pastimes. There is hardly a river or lake in North America that was not first seen from the gunwale of a canoe. Centuries before the invention of the train and the motorboat, canoes were used for exploration, trade, war, and the hunt. Indians crafted canoes out of dugout logs, birch bark, and animal hides; French colonists employed courier canoes; and the Spanish explorers brought cane and woodcrafts with them to new lands. The canoe has brought together Native Americans and European colonists, promoted exploration, and changed the economy forever with the onset of the fur trade. Hundreds of years later, it continues to hold practical, ceremonial, and totemic significance for many North Americans. The Canoe: An Illustrated History explores the role of this elegantly simple craft in history and modern culture. With accounts of historic canoe trips and infamous battles, detailed explanations of Native American canoe-building techniques, and more than 80 photographs, The Canoe is a must-read for paddlers and history buffs alike. A beautiful package. 45 color photographs. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Countryman Press; First American Edition (April 1, 2001)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 088150503X


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 30


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.68 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.4 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #2,231,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #492 in Canoeing


#492 in Canoeing:


Customer Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars 4 ratings


Frequently asked questions

If you place your order now, the estimated arrival date for this product is: Sep 3 – Sep 8

Yes, absolutely! You may return this product for a full refund within 30 days of receiving it.

To initiate a return, please visit our Returns Center.

View our full returns policy here.

  • Klarna Financing
  • Affirm Pay in 4
  • Affirm Financing
  • Afterpay Financing
  • PayTomorrow Financing
  • Financing through Apple Pay
Leasing options through Acima may also be available during checkout.

Learn more about financing & leasing here.

Similar Products

Top Amazon Reviews

    • Do judge this one by the cover!
Whether you're a reader (like me) or a browser (like my husband, to whom I gifted this lovely book), you will pick this book up again and again. The text is informative, and the photography throughout as stunning as the cover. A coffee table mainstay!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014 by Patriotismlive
    • History, craft, wonderful illustrations - and much more
This is a beautifully illustrated book supported by a text that is informative, well-organized - and wholly satisfying. The many photographs, engravings, historic and relevant photographs, beautiful paintings, and good nature photography - are first-rate. Jim Poling, Sr. begins at the beginning with "The First Canoeists." Christopher Columbus writes of his astonishment at seeing canoes in action: "They are not so wide because they are made of a single log of timber, but a galley could not keep up with them in rowing for their motion is a thing beyond belief." Pacific Coast canoes were made of cedar; northern inland canoes, of bark ( most often elm, hickory, spruce, and cedar). The "perfect material," birch, plentiful and remarkable, was used in the canoes of what would become the Canadian Maritime Provinces, northern New England, and Quebec, Ontario, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In addition birch (or its bark) provided the material of choice for Indians' toboggans, snowshoes, utensils, children's toys - plus winter covers for wigwams, food wrapping, animal calls, arrows and quivers, among other things. Finally, there were skin canoes. Poling describes the building of the various types of canoes. The initial contact between Europeans and the indigenous people of the North American continent is the focus of the second chapter. The canoe enabled access to inlands - and the ensuing frenzy of fur trading - that would otherwise have been impossible to accomplish on anything but waterways. Poling describes in good detail various components of historic canoe culture among the sixteenth and seventeenth century European settlers, paying close attention to the New France coureurs de bois - " runners of the woods." These were physically sturdy young men employed to fan out into the deep north woods, make contact with Indians, and facilitate the fur trade. But once set free, these fellows almost to a man dropped out of the repressive seventeenth-century French culture they had known. They embraced the woods and the physically taxing but otherwise rather freewheeling nonChristian life to be lived there - to the utter dismay of the colonists back at the settlements. The coureurs comprised "a distinct social class in the new land [...] neither liked nor accepted by the establishment [...] disrespectful of authority, irreverent, and violent..." Their occasional temporary re-entry into the precarious settlements was always problematic. They openly patronized prostitutes and rejected conventional European customs and manners. The problem became so severe that "the matter was brought to Louis XIV, who issued a 1681 decree limiting the number of coureurs du bois. Those who ignored it were branded with the fleur-de-lis, the symbol of France, and third offenders got life on the galley ships." Poling adds: "The decree didn't work." The beaver - mainstay of indigenous culture - is given good treatment in this book, and interesting tidbits are supplied - such as the fact that the French settlers enjoyed beaver meat to such an extent that "in an odd twist of logic someone persuaded the Roman Catholic Church to allow beaver consumption during Lent, when meat was forbidden. The argument was that the beaver spent most of its time in water and therefore was more fish than animal." Additional chapters detail among other things the horrors of the various skirmishes and all-out wars between Europeans and Indians (no detail spared), the role of the canoe in war (transportation only, too tippy to be battleships) the canoe routes, freight, trade, and changes in canoe design and function. Finally, there is information on the modern face of canoeing, building your own, and resources for canoeists. This book lacks an index and a bibliography, but is otherwise a great read (and would be great read aloud) - and thoroughly worthwhile. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2001 by Eileen G.

Can't find a product?

Find it on Amazon first, then paste the link below.
Checking for best price...