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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe

by John McPhee

Recommended by Daniel Pink and Nick Thompson

Recommended by Daniel Pink and Nick Thompson

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and History.

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birchbark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric techn...

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and History.

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