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Where the falcon flies : a 3,400 kilometre odyssey from my doorstep to the Arctic / by Shoalts, Adam,1986-author.;
"From Canada's most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes another gripping journey into the vastness of Canada's landscape and history, following the route of the migrating peregrine falcon. In March of 2020, Adam Shoalts set out from his front porch--the first steps of an adventure that will change our sense of the way our everyday lives are connected to the vastness of our small planet. Shoalts portaged his canoe down his driveway to Lake Erie. From there he followed the migrating peregrine falcon all the way to the arctic. His quest meant paddling along the shores of the Great Lakes, then travelling up the Saguenay River, through the forests and into the tundra, and then the Torngat mountains. In his signature style, Shoalts roams as much across time as he does across space, winding his way through a stunning landscape and the sites of battles, shipwrecks, and forgotten trading posts that define our country's history. But more importantly, he shows, mile-by-mile, how even our own driveways are connected to the network of ecosystems that support life around the globe. A work of gripping adventure writing and polished storytelling, and a tale with an unavoidably urgent ecological warning, Where the Falcon Flies is a masterwork of one of Canada's most successful and audacious authors"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Shoalts, Adam, 1986-; Canoes and canoeing;
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The song that called them home / by Robertson,David, 1977-; McKibbin, Maya,1995-;
"One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they've arrived, the children decide to fish for dinner while Moshom naps. They are in their canoe in the middle of the lake when the water around them begins to swirl and crash. They are thrown overboard and when Lauren surfaces she sees her brother being pulled away by the Memekwesewak--creatures who live in and around water and like to interfere with humans. Lauren must follow the Memekwesewak through a portal and along a watery path to find and bring back James. But when she finally comes upon her brother, she too feels the lure of the Memekwesewak's song. Something even stronger must pull them back home"--
Subjects: Picture books.; Siblings; Grandparent and child; Fishing; Canoes and canoeing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Northwind / by Paulsen, Gary.;
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Wilderness survival; Survival; Orphans; Fishing villages; Canoes and canoeing; Diseases;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The blue canoe / by McFarlane, Sheryl,1954-; Aylesworth, Laurel.;
Join mother-to-be and her daughter on an enchanting adventure filled with love, reassurance, and cherished connections, discovering the wonders of nature while embracing the arrival of a new baby. Every cabin day is a paddle-on-the-lake day. You'll be paddling with us too, coming-soon baby. Mom and me and you in our blue canoe. A mother and daughter spend the day on the lake, admiring the local flora and fauna and considering the way their paddling routine might change when a new baby arrives. For nature lovers with a growing family, The Blue Canoe is a poignant picture book conversation that gently addresses a child's natural worries about shifting family dynamics while celebrating the unchangeable bond between mother and child. The details of the animal families they encounter bolster the child's confidence and reinforce the mother's loving reassurance that even though a new baby will bring change, some things are as reliable as the sunrise.
Subjects: Picture books.; Mothers and daughters; Canoes and canoeing; Siblings; Animals;
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Destroyer angel [sound recording] / by Barr, Nevada.; Rosenblat, Barbara.;
Read by Barbara Rosenblat.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Canoes and canoeing; Kidnapping; Missing persons; Pigeon, Anna (Fictitious character); Women park rangers;
© p2014., Macmillan Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Paddling and hiking the Georgian Bay coast / by Stone, Kas,1959-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 254), Internet addresses and index.
Subjects: Hiking; Trails; Canoes and canoeing; Kayaking;
© 2008., Boston Mills Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Up the creek / by Oldland, Nicholas,1972-;
A bear, a moose and a beaver decide to go canoeing, and have to work through many disagreements along the way.LSC
Subjects: Moose; Bears; Beavers; Canoes and canoeing; Cooperativeness; Friendship;
© c2013., Kids Can Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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North American odyssey : 12,000 miles across the continent by kayak, canoe, and dogsled / by Freeman, Amy,author.; Freeman, Dave(Wilderness guide),author.;
"In 2010, experienced wilderness travelers Amy and Dave Freeman married and set out on an unusual honeymoon: a 12,000 mile, human-powered journey across North America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Freeman, Amy; Freeman, Dave (Wilderness guide); Canoes and canoeing; Dogsledding; Honeymoons; Kayaking; Outdoor life;
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Voyageur / by Walters, Eric,1957-;
Brian, his mom, and his sister have travelled from Manhattan to Northern Quebec for a canoe trip in order to scatter the ashes of Brian's father. They meet an older man named Pierre who offers to help them complete their journey safely. Along the way, Brian faces his grief while developing a friendship with the older man, who unknown to him is Pierre Elliott Trudeau.LSC
Subjects: Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 1919-2000; Canoes and canoeing; Teenage boys; Fathers; Grief;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Disappointment River : finding and losing the Northwest Passage / by Castner, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, only to confront impassable pack ice. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey--and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change. Eleven years before Lewis and Clark, the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie actually crossed the North American continent with a team of voyageurs and Native guides. Before that he was the first to discover a route to the Arctic Ocean from the Great Lakes, along the river he named "Disappointment" because he believed he'd failed in his mission to find a trade route to the riches of the East. In fact he had--he was just two-plus centuries early. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels in an 1,125-mile canoe voyage down the river that bears his name, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote Native villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that is quickly becoming a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money."--
Subjects: Castner, Brian; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820; Canoes and canoeing;
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