Yukon summer

by Eugene Cantin

Hardcover, 1973

Status

Available

Call number

AK 917.98 Can

Collection

Publication

Chronicle Books (1973), Edition: 1st, 198 pages

Description

Description of author's 1200-mile journey down the Yukon River in a collapsible one-man Kayak during the summer of 1972.

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LibraryThing member billsearth
This book is story of a trip down the Yukon in a kayak, before kayaks were popular for long distance travel. The author describes well the beauty and adventure of the spring and summer long trip. He descrives also the friendly and often colorful characters he meets along the journey.

The trip begins
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at off-loading a folding kayak upstream of the Yukon headwaters, on the shore of a frozen lake. The journey ends n the hot buggy Yukon delta, months later after many wonderful landscapes, adventures with animals and pleasant meetings with local people.
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Language

ISBN

0877010439 / 9780877010432
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