Overview

This sequel to our popular Canada's Best Canoe Routes offers 31 more prime paddling trips, encompassing British Columbia to Newfoundland and Labrador, and north to the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. All described by Canada's foremost paddlers, this canoeing and kayaking compendium has it all: freshwater, saltwater, flatwater and whitewater paddling, weekend trips and epic adventures. It also features profiles of 20 noteworthy paddlers, takes the reader on a tour of the Canadian Canoe Museum, and offers up a plethora of paddling maxims by canoe guru James Raffan, author of Summer North of Sixty, Fire in the Bones, Bark, Skin and Cedar, and Wild Waters: Canoeing North America's Wilderness Rivers.

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9781550463903

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[It] collects 31 firsthand accounts of water trips in Canada as told by some of the country's most accomplished paddlers.--Laszlo Buhasz Globe and Mail (05/10/2003)

Will leave you yearning to pick your paddle and head for the water at the very next opportunity.--Tina Crossfield Bow Waters Canoe Club Newsletter (09/01/2003)

I love adventure books ... [these are] stories of daring and excitement and an unparalleled beauty in Canada's wilderness areas. -- Valerie Hill Kitchener-Waterloo Record (08/23/2003)

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Alister Thomas has gunwale-bobbed on placid lakes, found himself upside-down (unintentionally) and backwards (intentionally) in frothing whitewater, and plied many of Canada's historic waterways. A Calgary-based journalist, he lives one block from the Bow River.

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