From a Wooden Canoe: Reflections on Canoeing, Camping, and Classic Equipment - Softcover

Dennis, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031226738X ISBN 13: 9780312267384

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000

Synopsis

An engaging collection of essays extolling the virtures of traditional outdoor equipment from wooden canoes to cast-iron skillets. In 1999, Jerry Dennis was the recipient of the Michigan Author of the Year Award presented by the Michigan Library Associ

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Review:

Collected from his "Traditions" column for Canoe and Kayak Magazine, From a Wooden Canoe pays tribute to the trusty hunting jackets that never seem to wear out, the sharpened pocket knives that men wear like badges, and the union suits they'll take to the grave. Dennis even dedicates a chapter to the unquestionable brilliance of duct tape. The atmosphere here is rustic do-it-yourself, memorializing a time when coated nylon was a fad and canvas was the standard. If you get misty for all that is well built and steeped in tradition, reading Jerry Dennis will be more like settling back down in front of the wood stove--a welcome respite from the chill of modern life. --Ben Tiffany

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Praise for Jerry Dennis:

"Jerry Dennis is one of a handful of superb younger writers who love angling deeply and write memoirs full of warmth, eloquence, and wit." --Nick Lyons, author of A Flyfisher's World

"Jerry Dennis writes of fly fishing as well as anyone, in both essays and short stories, blending a lyric prose style with an uncommonly sharp eye and a generous imagination." --W.D. Wetherell, author of North of Now

"Jerry Dennis writes words to listen to, and you won't want to miss a one." --Pete Fromm, author of Dry Rain and Indian Creek Chronicles

"With a jeweler's eye and passionate voice, Jerry Dennis explores the woods and rivers he loves and makes us feel alive about our own special places." --Doug Stanton, contributing editor of Men's Journal

"Jerry Dennis is an exceptionally gifted writer who has the rare ability to balance observation, thought, and feeling through words that are fresh, insightful, and inspiring." --Tom Huggler, Michigan Out-of-Doors

"Jerry Dennis is a master of conveying an appreciation of nature, a love for the outdoors, and the glory that is northern Michigan." --Tom Powers, Flint Journal (Michigan)

"Like fellow Michigan writer Jim Harrison, Edward Abbey, or Lawrence Durrell, whose works of fiction and nonfiction would bring to life the places they wrote about, Dennis's Michigan springs to life. You can almost smell the musky riverbanks or hear the buzzing mosquitoes." --Silent Sports Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 031226738X
• ISBN 13: 9780312267384
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Illustrator: Wolff Glenn