Author: ROBERTS, KENNETH & PHILIP SHACKLETON Title: Canoe a History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic
Description: Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing, 1983. First Edition. Leather. ISBN: 0771595824. Leather covered boards with bold gilt titles to the cover and the spine. In Very Good++ condition with a remainder mark to the bottom edges. Light spine end and corner bumping. Beatuifullly Illustrated with black & white & color illustrations and photographs on almost every page. The end papers are maps of the 'Indian and Inuit peoples and the regions they occupied. Tribal locations are largely based on the time period of the references in the book. ' The DJ is unclipped and in very good++ condition with light scuffing and egewear. "The canoe has a firm place in the mythology of our continent. Its history stretches back into the unrecorded past, its construction has conferred statuds on the builder and has fascinated the bystander for centuries, its forms are many and varied -- as are its uses, which range from the practical to the ceremonial and totemic." ; 1.2 x 12 x 10.1 Inches; 279 pages; Upstairs. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0771595824 Canoeing Boats, Ships, Sailing & Boatbuilding Crafts & Hobbies Transportation Reference
Price: US$ 54.25 Seller: Bytown Bookery
- Book number: 10075
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