The Canoe and White Water: From Essential to Sport

by C.E.S. Franks

Book Overview

The exhilaration of challenging and surviving rapids in a fragile canoe has made white water canoeing one of the fastest growing sports in Canada. Much of this book is concerned with analyzing white water, with the techniques for handling it rather than trying to conquer it by brute force, with canoeing safety, and with the planning and organizing of safe but adventurous trips.

But The Canoe and White Water goes far beyond primers in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802062946
• ISBN13: 9780802062949
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"