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An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp

An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp

Jerome, Christine

Paperback

Travel GeneralTravel WritingCanoeing & Kayaking

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 1621240002
ISBN13: 9781621240006
Publisher: Breakaway Books
Published: Apr 2 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A fine piece of work and a great delight.--John McPhee

Christine Jerome decides to repeat the 266-mile Adirondack canoe journey of George Washington Sears (pen name Nessmuk), a famous adventure and nature writer for the popular magazine Forest and Stream in the late nineteenth century. Part of what made his 1883 journey remarkable was the length of his canoe--a mere nine feet. The Sairy Gamp was the lightest of cockleshells, but could navigate rough lakes and stony rapids. Sears could heave it over his head and portage it between lakes for miles. So Jerome has a similar canoe built for herself, and sets off to see what has changed and what has remained on the water trail through the mountains.

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