Wilderness Canoeing: The Adventure and the Art

About This Book

Wilderness canoeing is one of the last great adventures that is available to people who have a yearning for exploration. Canoeists can visit remote wilderness areas that are otherwise inaccessible, because rivers carve routes through impenetrable vegetation and insurmountable geological obstructions.

Wilderness Canoeing: the Adventure and the Art takes the reader on incredible journeys down some of nature’s most beautiful waterways, on encounters with rapids, cataracts, and waterfalls, and on scenic tours of dense forests, rock-strewn riverbeds, majestic mountains, and other awesome landscapes.

In addition to relating the thrilling adventures of modern day voyageurs, and the challenging pitfalls of wild and wretched rivers, this volume offers a how-to guide that will prepare the reader for his own wilderness adventure: whether it be a weekend family outing down a “civilized” woodland creek, or a month-long excursion down a treacherous roaring river in the hyperborean wastelands.