Tumpline Canoeing by the Book
NEW TITLES TO KNEEL WITH >>by Ian Merringer Canoe Atlas of the Little North
Tis weighty reference book details the history, natural geography and, most importantly, canoe routes of the inter- connected waterways between Lake Superior, Hudson Bay, James Bay and Lake Winnipeg, an area the authors lament as unfairly overlooked. Tripping opportunities in each sub- region are given a textual overview with a 1:250,000 topo map showing rapids and portages.
BY JONATHAN BERGER and THOMAS TERRY
www.bostonmillspress.com $95 Cdn
Camp Cooking: The Black Feather Guide
If your trip menus give new meaning to the words bland and repetitive you’ll find this full-colour book appetizing. Tere are sections on camp equipment, packing techniques and managing waste for new trippers. Seasoned trippers will dig into more than 60 proven recipes picked from the
riverside kitchens of Black Feather’s guides. BY WENDY GRATER, JOANNA BAKER and MARK SCRIVER
www.helipress.com $25 Cdn, $20 US
The Lure of Faraway Places
After Herb Pohl died last summer on Lake Superior, friends of this remarkable solo paddler found a manuscript of his wilderness writings on his desk. Te task of editing them fell to James Raffan who describes this canoe-level portrait of Canada as “part journal, part memoir…part tips of the most pragmatic kind.”
BY HERB POHL
www.naturalheritagebooks.com $28 Cdn
A Paddler’s Guide to Quetico and Beyond
Readers of this magazine’s Butt End column will be pleased to know that Kevin Callan gets some serious work done be- tween misadventures. In this, his ninth guidebook, he tells you what you need to know to do 10 of Quetico Provincial Park’s best trips of up to one week long. Includes maps and contact information.
COMING SOON. BY KEVIN CALLAN
www.bostonmillspress.com $25 Cdn
All Things are Possible—The Verlen Kruger Story: 100,000 Miles by Paddle
For a complete tour schedule, check out
www.reelpaddlingfilmfestival .com 14 n C ANOE ROOT S summer 2007
Tis well-illustrated biography traces the sprawling routes of a man who paddled more kilometres in a canoe than anyone else in history. Kruger, a retired plumber from Michigan, came late to the sport but made up for it with numerous multi-year, continent-spanning trips. If you can’t
do it yourself, you can call the plumber. BY PHIL PETERSON SR.
www.adventurepublications.net $35 US
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