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The Season’s Best Books
>>by Ian Merringer
The Tent Dwellers 100th anniversary edition
Paine’s straightforward prose proves durable a century after he canoed into the wilds of Nova Scotia on his fi shing adventure. This witty account of unwit- ting canoe travel from another era is accompanied by a contemporary guide for planning your own trip in the same
Tobeatic wilderness Paine paddled. Albert Bigelow Paine $12 •
www.nimbus.ns.ca
Emperor of the North Sir George Simpson and the remarkable story of the Hudson’s Bay Company
The 53 pages of notes, appendices and indices show this to be a thoroughly researched historical eff ort. The 416 pre- ceding pages show Sir George Simpson to have been a fascinating man. Raff an uses Simpson’s personal triumphs and failings to detail how the HBC eff ec- tively carved Canada onto the map one
paddle stroke at a time. James Raff an
$34 •
www.harpercollins.ca The Explorer’s Guide to Algonquin Park
Michael Runtz has worked in Canada’s most popular canoeing destination as a biologist and naturalist for decades. What he can teach you is that canoe- ing the park is immeasurably more enjoyable if you have some background knowledge of the important what, when, where, why and how of the
wildlife and ecosystems within. Michael Runtz
$29 •
www.fi refl
ybooks.com
A Fork in the Trail Mouthwatering meals and tempting treats for the backcountry
After a restrained primer on the trickier aspects of planning and preparing a meal that will taste as great as it travels, this book digs into the meat of the issue: 246 pages of recipes. Many are exotic but still simple enough you won’t be sweating over the campfi re when
you should be swimming. Laurie Ann March
$19 •
www.touchwoodeditions.com 14 ■ C ANOE ROOT S summer 2008
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