The Survival of the Bark Canoe
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. (1975). Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), brown cloth with embossed canoe bow impression. 114, (32) pp. with "A Portfolio of the Sketches and Models of Edwin Tappan Adney (1868-1950)". Illustrated in black and white. Very good in good jacket which is browned at the edges and with a few chips in the edges of the jacket. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. There is a little specklinig on the fore-edge. Very good / good. Item #19550
" 'The survival of the Bark Canoe' is the story of the building of birch-bark canoes and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist of these woods, Henry David thoreau, whose 'Maine Woods' recounts similar journeys in similar craft."
Price: $30.00