Item #26801 The Survival of the Bark Canoe. John McPhee.

The Survival of the Bark Canoe.

New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1975. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to the edges. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of the ancient craft of Native American bark canoe making and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. Item #26801

Price: $125.00

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