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The Survival of the Bark Canoe


The Survival of the Bark Canoe
By John McPhee
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989. $7.95

Reviewed by John Hobbs


writes: McPhee, an avid and experienced canoer, meets Henri Vaillancourt and alternates this book between descriptions of Vaillancourt's craft and a canoe trip McPhee makes with Vaillancourt and others. We find out that being an master canoe builder does not automatically make one an accomplished backwoods canoeist.

An enjoyable - if too short - read.


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