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

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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.

At Home in the Woods

Author: Bradford Angier
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608934438
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of our American heritage, as sound today as the day he first set it down. But his advice on the simple life has seemed too rugged for later generations, brought up in cities, pampered with conveniences and scared of nature. Vena and Brad Angier were fed up with their city bound existence and longtime readers and admirers of Thoreau, they set out to see if his discoveries were valid today. This is the account of two wilderness-loving tenderfeet, who headed for the tall timber on the banks of the Peace River, British Columbia. There near the trading post of Hudson Hope they found their Walden. How they made themselves ‘At Home in the Woods,’ stocked their cabin, met their interesting wilderness neighbors who helped them get settled and who saw them through their first winter makes honest and exciting reading. The city-bred Angiers found out that Thoreau was right when he wrote: “What people say you can not do, you try and find you can.”

Death on Cache Lake

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

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"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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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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Tug Hill Country

Author: Harold E. Samson
Publisher: North Country Books
ISBN: 9780925168849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Groom Lake

Author: Bryan O
Publisher: MOBO Media
ISBN: 9780615200996
Category : Groom Lake (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Groom Lake is not just a novel; the narrative is a briefing on America''s black budget programs and practices that originated at Area 51 in Nevada. The story gives a historical account of "shadow government" activities, methods and reasoning, intertwined with a fast-paced plot where intelligence agents guard their fringe programs from inquisitive civilians, China''s Ministry of State Security and a congressional task force investigating black budget spending.

Snowshoe Country

Author: Florence Page Jaques
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
"A well-traveled New York sophisticate, Florence Page Jaques fell in love with northern Minnesota during her first trips to the region, and recounted those early travels in Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country. She writes of the excitement of traveling by foot, canoe, snowshoe, and dogsled. Weeks of solitude canoeing through the Boundary Waters are interrupted by encounters with the denizens of the north country: Native Americans preserving the vestiges of traditional culture, colorful and sometimes eccentric lumberjacks and trappers, and hard-working homesteaders."--pub. website.

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.

People of the Lake

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

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