The survival of the bark canoe. (Record no. 69502)
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| fixed length control field | 01543cam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0446872512 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 623.8129 J6136 S |
| Item number | 10546 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | John Mcphee |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The survival of the bark canoe. |
| Medium | English |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher | Warber Books |
| Date of publication | 1975 |
| Place of publication | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 114 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | <br/>In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft 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. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Canoes and canoeing. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Fiction | Chinmaya International Foundation | Chinmaya International Foundation | Fiction | 18/03/2018 | Donation | 623.8129 J6136 S 10546 | 10546 | 18/03/2018 | Books |