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softcover, 1st Trade Edition, 3rd Warner Communications. A Portfolio of Sketches and Models of Edwin TappanAdney (1868-1950), included.
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In an age of mass-produced and disposable objects, traditional crafts are becoming extinct, and appreciation for craftsmanship has become a hobby for the wealthy dilettante. But here and there, a few stalwart individuals carry on the old traditions. Henri Vaillancourt of Greenville, New Hampshire is in large part responsible for the continuing survival of the birch bark canoe. McPhee tells the story not only of Vaillancourt and his work, but of the canoe's role in American history. Many McPhee fans consider this lovely and lucid book one of his finest works.
About the Author
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Tight, unmarked; spine straight with single crease; age tanned; a few stains to the cover; light general wear; "The building of.the traveling in.the love, the lore and the adventure of the birch bark canoe. Henri Vaillancourt makes birch bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the (Indigenous) used. He sews them and lashes them with split roots of spruce or white pine. No nails, screws or rivets mar their authenticity. For Vaillancourt, canoe making is an art to which he has dedicated his life. In one of Vaillancourt's canoes, the builder, John McPhee, and some friends travel 150 miles into the Maine woods. McPhee describes the expedition as he presents the lore of the canoe and tells a cracking good story. Seller Inventory # 009395
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