Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods

Author: John J. Rowlands
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581574924
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 510

Book Description
The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, reissued for its many fans “Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons—a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates, and the slow and pleasurable way in which the soul of a serene man is revealed.” —The New York Times Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days, he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams," which he named Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer?timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. This is his story, containing both folklore and philosophy, with wisdom about the woods and the demand therein for inventiveness. It includes directions for making moccasins, stoves, shelters, outdoor ovens, canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets.

Cache Lake Country

Author: John J. Rowlands
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Includes information on equipment and methods of travel.

Death on Cache Lake

Author: Dan Woll
Publisher: Romeii LLC
ISBN: 9781937391041
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
"Set in the tumultuous days of 1970 as the University of Wisconsin anti-war movement imploded after a deadly campus bombing, Death on Cache Lake takes the reader on a dark odyssey through the lake wilds of Ontario, and the woods and small towns of Wisconsin. A fishing trip in Quetico Provincial Park turns violently tragic when friends Caleb Pratt and John Short cross paths with a former acquaintance who is running for his life, aided and abetted by a sociopathic mercenary. Caleb and John's adrenaline-filled flight through Ontario to unravel the conspiracy and save their lives takes them on trains, hitch-hiked rides on trucks, cross country skis, and canoes, all at a breakneck pace climaxing in an unforgettable reckoning"--Page 4 of cover.

North Country Cache

Author: Joan H. Young
Publisher: Shark Enterprises
ISBN: 9780976543213
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Goodbye Beaver Lake

Author: Irwin Wolfe
Publisher: Goodbye Beaver Lake
ISBN: 9781931207447
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536

Book Description
Separatist madness engulfs Quebec in this saga of a society torn asunder by French-Canadian nationalists hellbent on Quebec's secession from Canada. It might be described as a historical/political metaphor, a cautionary tale, recounting some of the momentous events which have occurred in the Province of Quebec between the late 50s and present day. The story also dips back into the 30s and 40s.

The House on Moon Lake

Author: Francesca Duranti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883285876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Viennese novel -- The House on Moon Lake -- in the journals of a late esteemed literary critic, he dreams that this project will put him on the cultural and literary map, and finally bring him the accolades that have eluded him. Fabrizio journeys to Vienna, tracks down the book, and translates it, and in so doing embarks on a nightmarish search for the truth behind the events depicted in it, as well as for clues about the tragic life of its forgotten author. When asked to write a short biography of the novelist, Fabrizio must invent details missing from the last three years of his subject's life. The resulting biography is a publishing phenomenon. But the repercussions for Fabrizio are profound: he becomes the willing victim of a person he had thought to be fictional.

Cache Lake Country

Author: John J. Rowlands
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393009088
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Maine to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days -- "it was so quiet I could hear the drops from the paddle hitting the water" -- he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams". He never left. He named the place Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer -- timber for a cabin; fish, game and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without.

Out Here on Soap Creek

Author: Inez McAlister Faber
Publisher: Iowa State Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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People of the Lake

Author: Richard E. Leakey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Trap Lines North

Author: Stephen Warren Meader
Publisher: Southern Skies Publishing
ISBN: 9781931177061
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Winter was near, and with Big Lindsay laid up, it looked as if the Vanderbecks were in for a hard time. Winter way up north in the Thunder Bay District of Ontario is a serious matter. It is long and bitter and there is much work to be done that requires experience and woods wisdom and courage. This winter it was up to eighteen-year-old Jim Vanderbeck and his younger brother Lindsay to take their father's place on the trap-lines. Upon their efforts, pitted against real dangers and hardships, depended the annual catch of fur and the income of the family. Jim felt the responsibility but he also felt the adventure of being all on his own. Trap-Lines North is the story of that winter. So realistically does Stephen Meader retell it that the reader is virtually taken into the woods with Jim in the fall. He tramps from line camp to line camp, followed by the staunch old sled dogs, Bruno and Pat. He sleeps in rough pole lean-tos, eats moose meat, catches fish through the ice, and from time to time feels a chill along his spine when he comes upon the tracks of the lone gray killer---the biggest wolf in Canada. Jim Vanderbeck is a real person.