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Review Date: 10/28/2009
CONTENTS:
CH1 INTRO
CH2 Equipment and Clothing
CH3 Making your paddle Strokes more Effective
CH4 THe Art of reading fast water
CH5 River Tactics
CH6 A safety code for you
CH7 Rescuing yourself and others
CH8 strategy on the hypothetical River
CH9 teaching River Canoeing
CH10 Slalom Canoes are different
CH11 Enjoying River Canoeing
Appendix
guidebooks
references
river dificulty classification
Slalom rules
English gate test
Back cover of the Book:
Basic River Canoeing will equally valuable to a water front director of a youth camp, a guide for a group of river travelers, or a wanderer of far wilderness waters.
It begins where flat-water canoeing books stop and simply and concisely describes how and why the components of wild water, canoe, and paddle equal high adventure.
Bob McNair is an engineer who has applied his knowledge of hydrolics to the safe, sure handling of a bucking canoe in roaring river rapids. With his wife Edith, he has successfully competed in white water races in many parts of the U.S. He was one of the founders of teh American White Water Affiliation and of Philadelphia's Buck Ridge Ski Club and a trainer for Boy Scout Councils in the eastern states. He was a founder of America's first school for river canoeist, "The Red Ridge College of Canoe Knowledge."
But Bob is more that a top-flight canoeist and slalom competitor. He's a competent teacher and enthusiastic sharer of the skills you will need to master a thrilling sport.
CH1 INTRO
CH2 Equipment and Clothing
CH3 Making your paddle Strokes more Effective
CH4 THe Art of reading fast water
CH5 River Tactics
CH6 A safety code for you
CH7 Rescuing yourself and others
CH8 strategy on the hypothetical River
CH9 teaching River Canoeing
CH10 Slalom Canoes are different
CH11 Enjoying River Canoeing
Appendix
guidebooks
references
river dificulty classification
Slalom rules
English gate test
Back cover of the Book:
Basic River Canoeing will equally valuable to a water front director of a youth camp, a guide for a group of river travelers, or a wanderer of far wilderness waters.
It begins where flat-water canoeing books stop and simply and concisely describes how and why the components of wild water, canoe, and paddle equal high adventure.
Bob McNair is an engineer who has applied his knowledge of hydrolics to the safe, sure handling of a bucking canoe in roaring river rapids. With his wife Edith, he has successfully competed in white water races in many parts of the U.S. He was one of the founders of teh American White Water Affiliation and of Philadelphia's Buck Ridge Ski Club and a trainer for Boy Scout Councils in the eastern states. He was a founder of America's first school for river canoeist, "The Red Ridge College of Canoe Knowledge."
But Bob is more that a top-flight canoeist and slalom competitor. He's a competent teacher and enthusiastic sharer of the skills you will need to master a thrilling sport.
Review Date: 10/27/2009
AWESOME BOOK!!!! Crazy scary.
Once Upon a Family (Fostered by Love, Bk 1) (Love Inspired, No 393)
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Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
32
Author:
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
32
Review Date: 9/16/2008
great story!
Well written.
HARD TO PUT DOWN READ!!!!!
Well written.
HARD TO PUT DOWN READ!!!!!
Once Upon A Family (Steeple Hill Love Inspired (Larger Print))
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Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Author:
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
19
Review Date: 9/16/2008
Helpful Score: 1
VERY WELL WRITTEN EMOTIONAL STORY full of lifes ups and downs.
Full of activity throughout. A very easy to follow quick read.
I couldn't put it down.
Full of activity throughout. A very easy to follow quick read.
I couldn't put it down.
Review Date: 6/9/2011
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it "the world's best-defended Third World country." The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American "space cadet" Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love with and marries Soviet career bureaucrat Sonya Gagarin and the story jumps ahead 20 years, blending world events with a focus on their family. Sonya's star has risen with the Euro-Russians' while Jerry has been stymied by pervasive anti-Americanism. Daughter Franja has her father's space fever and enrolls in a Russian space school; son Bob, fiercely curious about an earlier, admired America before it was run by xenophobic "Gringos," enters Berkeley. Ten years later the U.S. is a pariah, Euro-Russia the pet of the civilized world and the Reeds scattered--politics forced Jerry and Sonya's divorce, Franja speaks only to her mother and Bob is trapped in "Festung Amerika." A series of odd, occasionally tragic events brings the family (and the world) together. Despite some tech-talk this is not science fiction: the first two-thirds of this hefty book is chillingly logical, if sometimes very funny, and while the "happy" ending may seem forced, Spinrad ( Bug Jack Barron ) gives us a wild, exhilarating ride into the next century.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
As the American dream of space explorations devolves into the nightmare of orbiting nuclear defense shields, aerospace engineer Jerry Reed casts his lot with the Europeans to preserve his own commitment to his country's abandoned ideals. Shifting international alliances, however, spell disaster for an increasingly isolationist United States, and the fortunes of Reed and his family (a Russian wife and two culture-torn children) fall prey to "politicians' politics." Spinrad's latest novel is a chronicle both of the 21st century and of one man's burning passion. As in Little Heroes ( LJ 6/15/87), the author focuses on his characters, who are compelling in their weaknesses as well as their strengths and admirable in their persistence in the face of undeserved tribulation. Inspirational without becoming didactic, wise without becoming arch, this novel stands in a class by itself. A priority purchase.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly
In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it "the world's best-defended Third World country." The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American "space cadet" Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love with and marries Soviet career bureaucrat Sonya Gagarin and the story jumps ahead 20 years, blending world events with a focus on their family. Sonya's star has risen with the Euro-Russians' while Jerry has been stymied by pervasive anti-Americanism. Daughter Franja has her father's space fever and enrolls in a Russian space school; son Bob, fiercely curious about an earlier, admired America before it was run by xenophobic "Gringos," enters Berkeley. Ten years later the U.S. is a pariah, Euro-Russia the pet of the civilized world and the Reeds scattered--politics forced Jerry and Sonya's divorce, Franja speaks only to her mother and Bob is trapped in "Festung Amerika." A series of odd, occasionally tragic events brings the family (and the world) together. Despite some tech-talk this is not science fiction: the first two-thirds of this hefty book is chillingly logical, if sometimes very funny, and while the "happy" ending may seem forced, Spinrad ( Bug Jack Barron ) gives us a wild, exhilarating ride into the next century.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
As the American dream of space explorations devolves into the nightmare of orbiting nuclear defense shields, aerospace engineer Jerry Reed casts his lot with the Europeans to preserve his own commitment to his country's abandoned ideals. Shifting international alliances, however, spell disaster for an increasingly isolationist United States, and the fortunes of Reed and his family (a Russian wife and two culture-torn children) fall prey to "politicians' politics." Spinrad's latest novel is a chronicle both of the 21st century and of one man's burning passion. As in Little Heroes ( LJ 6/15/87), the author focuses on his characters, who are compelling in their weaknesses as well as their strengths and admirable in their persistence in the face of undeserved tribulation. Inspirational without becoming didactic, wise without becoming arch, this novel stands in a class by itself. A priority purchase.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review Date: 10/20/2009
Excellent "How-to" reference guide. Here is a practical, easy-to-use guide with full directions and photographs/illustrations. Contents include an introduction, kinds of camping, where are the best campgrounds?, advance planning and preparation, assembling your equipment, transporting your equipment, camp cookery, making camp, wilderness camping, camping with children, tips for novice hikers, handling the unexpected, recreational vehicles and an index. Includes black and white illustrations and photographs.
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