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Paddle Adventuring With Canoe & Kayak
by Herb Klinger
336 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-0018; ISBN 1-4251-1566-7; US$23.00, C$26.45, EUR17.93, £11.89
Paddle Adventuring: With Canoe and Kayak is a kaleidoscopic embrace of North America's fastest growing sport through narrative, helpful information, 750 plus visuals and verse. A spirited passage to accessible adventure.
About the Book
Most books on this subject fall into two categories:
How-To's and Grand Expeditions.
Paddle Adventuring happily fills some of the inviting spaces in-between.
This tribute ranges from the joy and zen of paddling to the zany, from novice to skilled tripping and family cruising. It reflects useful lessons learned and possibilities that beckon - from local to favored waters like Ontario lakes country, Chesapeake and Florida rivers, New England, the British Columbia coast, Alaska, coastal and interior Belize.
Millions of us are beneficiaries of a vast array of new outdoor and on-the-water possibilities, offering more than a lifetime of easily pursued adventure from mild to wild, from global in scope to after work, and right around home. Paddling is a universal activity unrestricted by age or sex that almost anyone can do, a recreational style that is simple, versatile, hip, wholesome, ecologically friendly, affordable, a door to freedom, connecting with nature and providing easy access to varieties of joyous adventuring.
Increasingly we need outlets which offer diversion and simplicity in the face of daily complexity. Recent announcements touting hundreds of planned, "You Can Paddle" events in the United States put it this way: "Paddling brings sanity to an insane world. It quiets society's noise and reconnects us to something vital and real. Paddling can change your life if you let it." ...Chevy Trucks. James Raffan, author of Bark, Skin and Cedar, has written "To paddle a canoe is to embark on a luminal journey that can sweep a willing heart across thresholds of new worlds."
TABLE OF CONTENTS includes:
The Paddle Thing
Paddle Adventuring
"Taste Life"
Heritage
Canoes Schmooze, Kayakety-Yak
Canoebial Bliss
Nuts & Heroes
Canoe Views
Gunkholing
Whitewater
Paddling with Kids
Tripping and Cruising
Portaging
Mug & Grub
Fishin' & Wishin'
The Wild Side
Stump Sermons
Staying Topside
Out & Beyond
U 2 Can Canoe - and Kayak Too
Paddle Adventuring is opti-centric; lots of photos, saving, in theory at least, thousands of words. As for the "kaleidoscopic" mix, the versifications might sometimes conjure faint company with Rap or Cowboy Poetry, but inspired this time by the rhythm of paddle strokes, the gentle rise and fall of the oceans swells, and the windy-day lapping of waves. It is an appreciation of useful shared experience, a window on a segment of the paddling world. Old timers may nod and chuckle; newcomers might be encouraged to just get out there, and go.
There are references to much that is happening in the paddling universe-motherships, urban paddling, canoe design, canoe trails, kayak trends, paddling seniors, remedial paddling, safety, conservation, saving and restoring rivers- and some how-to's via the not-how-to's. The paddle offers a return to a conscious sense of body and self. From imagining to doing. Grabbing hold, a handle on your world, "paddling you own canoe"... or kayak... instantly and tangibly responsive, buoyant. Real, Exciting. Revitalizing.
Some early reviews: PADDLE ADVENTURING with Canoe and Kayak
Great book....a real treasure.
Dr. James Flosdorf (Poet, author, photographer)
A fascinating book....full of black and white pictures that almost any paddler or canoe tripper is bound to enjoy. It features a collage of memories, from the whimsical to the amazing, some full of solitude, others full of smiles, all depicting the joys and challenges of outdoor adventure....(with) a mixture of poetry and prose that makes for enjoyable reading.
- The Temagami Times
I'm glad to see your efforts have manifested into book form. I'll enjoy it on many levels for years to come.
- John Viehman (Former editor of Canoe magazine, and Backpacker magazine, now publisher of Down East magazine)
Delightful book. I look forward to reading some of the poems and reflections to my students when out in the field.
- Dave Pinel (Northwest guide)
Intriguing mix of pictures that both teach and encourage...Chock full of golden nuggets... Doable adventuring...Reachable dreams.
- Dr. Louis Perez (Member Explorers Club)
Great...Wonderful...Moving...A search for meaning, and sharing...Ive ordered six copies for our high school libraries.
- Dr. Ed Lynn (Associate Superintendent of Schools)
Potent combo of information through spectacular photography and verse...Seductive.
- Fred Haack (Diplomat, author)
Really fun in addition to all it comes to teach us, It speaks to a wonderful philosophy. And the pictures....!
- Dr. Jerome Beker, Founder, Child Care Quarterly)
Holy cow! OUTSTANDING! Beautifully presented. It touches the soul.
- Thaddeus Kuczinski (Educator, community activist)
Touches all bases. On a scale of 1 to 10, a big 10!
- E.A. Levay (President, E.A. Levay Co.)
What a fantastic book!
- Wendy Tatman (Ontario canoe camp director)
Wonderful book. Precious!!! So special!!
Ed Trenner (Maine Camp Director) A love Odyssey (Noreen, Ed's wife and partner)
A real winner....(Different sizes of pictures, white space allowed, and the cast of characters)...it all combines to make a splendid offering for the outdoors-minded.
N. Taylor (Author, humanitarian)
Great pictures, wonderful poetry I have had so much fun with it...I show it to everyone.
- Dave Buffington (Educator, outdoorsman)
Have read every page, every word, left me feeling ecstatic.
- Alan Barnouw (Architect, outdoorsman)
One sweet book...stirs a desire...everytime I pick the thing up I spend a good hour immersed in your love ....
- Peter Bradford (New York book designer)
Absolutely fabulous...I read a bit every night and it sends me to sleep happy as a clam and wishing I were out there paddling too.
- Jill Gale de Villa (Philippine publisher, author)
Marvelous, Marvelous, just marvelous.
- Dr. Lubor Stejskal (Professor, artist)
A beautiful expression of a love, a passion, a way of life.....A happy invitation to paddle
- Laurel Murphy (Health clubs web sites coordinator)
About the Author
Herb Klinger, a former Non-Western Studies teacher, canoeing counselor and tripping director, Camping and Guidance Instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and with Program Development as Recreation Chief of the US Job Corps, has been a lifelong paddler. Following travels in over a hundred and twenty countries, the publication of Knapsacking Abroad (Stackpole Books) and several best-selling color-sound filmstrip and video series including Man: A Cross-Cultural Approach, Global Cultures, and Man: An Ecological Approach (Educational Design, Inc.), Herb's avocational interest in canoeing and kayaking became a major focus. He and his wife Judy spend much of their time on the British Columbia coast and paddling from an island cabin in Temagami, Ontario. His work has appeared in Anorak (North Atlantic Kayaker), Camping Magazine, Canoesport, Canoe & Kayak, Messing About in Boats, Paddler, Sports Afield, and Travel Magazine.
