This engaging collection explores the quintessential American sports of canoeing and camping and pays tribute to the things worth keeping, from wooden canoes to pocket knives to cast-iron skillets. At a deeper level, it is about respect (for our possessions, for the natural world, for ourselves) and about the pleasures of a life well spent. “From a Wooden Canoe” is a celebration of the good things and the simple pleasures of life outdoors. It is a book to be treasured, to be read on winter evenings and rainy afternoons and to be kept handy on a cabin shelf.

Edition: 2000