Qayaqs and Canoes: Native Ways of Knowing

By Jan Steinbright

Book Overview

Alaska Native master boat builders, apprentices, and volunteers build eight traditional watercraft, recapturing the knowledge of their ancestors and reviving the spirit of their people. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097091640X
• ISBN13: 9780970916402
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A truly beautiful book

Qayaqs & Canoes: Native Ways of Knowing by writer/editor Jan Steinbright is a superb presentation of simple, traditionally made water craft among Alaska's Native American population, and the people who build and use them today. Illustrated with gorgeous color photographs taken by Clark James Mishler, and filled with countless personal interviews, Qayaqs & Canoes is a truly beautiful book and very highly recommended reading for anyone interested in learning about the means by which Alaska's Native Americans have traveled the sea from time immemorial.