Resonant, reflective, a legacy of the Canadian canoeing experience ― Canexus: The Canoe in Canadian Culture is a first. "This book is cause for celebration," says Kanawa Canoe Museum founder Kirk Wipper, "because of the canoe, and because it is created by writers who are, themselves, enthusiastic paddlers."
From "Canoe Sport" to "Canoe Irony" and finding "Motives for Mr. Canoehead," Canexus opens doors to the primitive and explores the canoeing experience from an exciting variety of perspectives.
Travel with some of Canada’s best known canoeists to the mysterious Northwest Coast of BC, across constitutional waves on Meech Lake and into a landscape of the Canadian imagination. Hear great canoe stories, bake bannock, weather storms, ponder canoeing and gender roles. For all kinds of paddlers, and lovers of adventure and wilderness, Canexus gives the canoe its rightful place of prominence in Canadian culture.
With contributions by E.Y. Arima, Philip Chester, C.E.S. Franks, Shelagh Grant, Bob Henderson, Bruce Hodgins, Gwyneth Hoyle, William C. James, C. Fred Johnston, George Luste, Roderick A. Macdonald, Kenneth G. Roberts and Kirk Wipper.
"The writers in Canexus bring different perspectives & abilities to these essays, but all of them reinforce the idea of the canoe as an ancient, echoing symbol; one that can illuminate our place in the north like no other."
– M.T. Kelly, Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literature
"An intelligent person’s guide to the place of the canoe in the Canadian culture and psyche...exciting, like fast white water and spray in your face..."
― Fred Bodsworth
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James Raffan, a much experienced writer, paddler and northern traveller, has been recognized with many honours including the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. He is the Curator of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, and resides in Seeleys Bay, Ontario.
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Mason, Bill (illustrator). Very very light wear. Clean and square with NO spine creasing. Seller Inventory # 033396
Book Description Softcover. Mason, Bill (illustrator). First edition. Covers lightly edge-worn; pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition. ]. 212p. Illus. Essays by Eugene Arima, Philip Chester, C.E.S. Franks, Bob Henderson, Bruce Hodgins, Bert Horwood, Gwyneth Hoyle, William C. James, Fred Johnston, George Luste, Rod MacDonald, James Raffan, Kenneth Roberts and Kirk Wipper. Seller Inventory # 35303
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Mason, Bill (illustrator). First Edition. First edition stated. Softbound book in good condition. Age related toning to edges of pages and to endpapers. However, wraps remain glossy and spine uncreased. Seller Inventory # CHAPraffCCC
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mason, Bill (illustrator). First Edition. Former owner's name and date on front endpaper. A nice, crisp copy. ; B & W illustrations; 5.75 X 0.3 X 9 inches; 212 pages. Seller Inventory # 321228
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Mason, Bill (illustrator). Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.57. Seller Inventory # 0969078358-2-3
Book Description Condition: Good. Mason, Bill (illustrator). Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 0.57. Seller Inventory # 353-0969078358-gdd
Book Description Softcover. Condition: Fine. Mason, Bill (illustrator). First Edition. xi, 212 p. 23 cm. Paperback. Vrious authors on canoeing and gender roles, canoe sport in Canada, Mr. Canoehead, etc. Index. Seller Inventory # 144408
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. B/W Drawings (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Canoe in Canadian Culture '. Eleven other authors join the editors in fleshing out these 212 pages. INDEX at back. Bill Mason provides b/w drawings. LEARN more about : William P. Stephens, Nautilus, Lake George, Dillon Wallace, Mina Hubbard, Lilly Dipping, caribou migration, and lunar symbols. Cond : Paper wrapper is aquamarine with black lettering. Cover has 4 canoe route topo map segments. Volume is clean and square and bright with a lengthy gift inscription on ffep. QUote (p. 29) : " `There us a connexion,' states Cirlot in a ` Dictionary of Symbols', ` between the boat and the human body.' This womb-like, cradling aspect of ther canoe might be illustrated from Margaret Atwood's novel `Surfacing' , where one of the narrator's earliest memories is ._._._. . " Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 016199