Canoeing with the Cree
8 best books like Canoeing with the Cree (Eric Sevareid): One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods, The Last Mission, The Singing Wilderness, Crazy-White-Man
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
| Author | Sam Keith |
| ISBN | 0882405136 |
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content...
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0140159940 |
John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account of Powell's struggle against western geography and Washington politics. We witness the successes and...
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
| Author | Edward Dolnick |
| ISBN | 0060955864 |
Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.
On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
| Author | Cary Griffith |
| ISBN | 0873515897 |
In the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death. On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to...
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| ISBN | 0440947979 |
In 1944, as World War II is raging across Europe, fifteen-year-old Jack Raab dreams of being a hero. Leaving New York City, his family, and his boyhood behind, Jack uses a false I.D. and lies his way into the U.S. Air Force.From their base in England, he and his crew fly twenty-four treacherous bombing...
| Author | Sigurd F. Olson |
| ISBN | 0816629927 |
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and portaged with him through this wilderness,...
| Author | Richard Morenus |
| ISBN | 1568493150 |
Cringe worthy in Places.
Maybe its the authors age, life experience or whatever that he uses derogatory names for the indigenous first nations people. There were good discriptions of land and learning lessons of the Bush. He did make friends with one native living near him and did seem to want...
