Shooting the Rapids
From Introduction
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From Introduction
Canoeists paddling a Wenonah Kevlar canoe above a rapids in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
From Introduction
Sigurd Olson’s Border Lakes Outfitting Company, April 4, 1940.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Birchbarks at Batchewang, 2012.
From Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
Evidence of travel by canoe exists in the form of pictographs hundreds of years old in the Quetico region of Canada. Scientists are not in agreement about who made the images—or even when—but the painting of people in a boat is unmistakable.
From Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
Biologist Aldo Leopold (center) accompanies his son Starker (left) on a canoe trip in the Quetico boundary waters in 1924.
From Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
Threats to canoe routes across the continent came (and sometimes went) as industry and government eyed the land for other uses.
From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping
Florence Page Jaques wrote Canoe Country (1945) and Snowshoe Country (1944), both illustrated by her husband Francis.