Campsite Memories: True Tales from Wild Places - Softcover

Jacobson, Cliff

9780934802888: Campsite Memories: True Tales from Wild Places

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934802882 ISBN 13: 9780934802888

Publisher: UNKNO, 1994

A professional canoeist and wilderness guide recounts the highlights of an adventurous life, from his second wedding in the remote Arctic to the challenge of taking previously untrained teenagers on a whitewater canoe trio

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About the Author:

Cliff Jacobson is a unique man who has been canoeing over 40 years. He is an environmental science teacher who resides in River Falls, Wisconsin. His experiences as a canoe guide have taken him along more than 20,000 miles of wilderness rivers. He is the author of more than ten titles on various outdoor topics. He is also an Outdoors Writers Association of America member.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fans of the outdoors may enjoy these engaging, if often slight, tales of adventure, friendship and nature. Jacobson, a professional canoe guide in Minnesota and Canada, comes off as a thoughtful, decent chap, and he's collected some good anecdotes along the way. He tells of a nonchalant young Inuit man who repairs a snowmobile in the middle of a blizzard using a piece of his rifle barrel. He meets some obnoxious kids who say they are from a "church group" but turn out to be escapees from a camp for juvenile delinquents. He recalls a masterful mechanic who moved between a blue-collar workplace and the white-collar world of his canoeing buddies. If Jacobson expresses reverence for nature, he's not unaware of irony; he reports that most Canadian Indians and Eskimos in the far north rely on power boats and Skidoos and have never even owned a canoe. Some of the better tales reveal something about the author, such as meeting his second wife when she joined his canoe trip and their wedding in the bush; he tells of getting lost as a young forester and of teaching ninth graders environmental science and seeing them develop concern for nature. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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