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Allagash: A Journey Through Time on Maine's Legendary Wilderness Waterway de Gil Gilpatrick

Allagash: A Journey Through Time on Maine's Legendary Wilderness Waterway

Autor Gil Gilpatrick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2010
Allagash - the name itself evokes a sense of awe and adventure that only this wilderness area can convey. In Allagash, Gil Gilpatrick skillfully weaves fact and fiction to whisk you back through time on this legendary waterway. The facts in this exciting book is based on careful research - the fiction is based on facts that are known combined with careful speculation of what could have happened.
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ISBN-13: 9781565234871
ISBN-10: 1565234871
Pagini: 227
Dimensiuni: 153 x 232 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Fox Chapel Publishing

Cuprins

Introduction
Part One, Allagash Wilderness Waterway
*Prologue
*Chapter One, Put-Ins
*Chapter Two, Chamberlain Lake
*Chapter Three, Eagle Lake
*Chapter Four, Churchill Lake and Chase Rapids
*Chapter Five, Umsaskis and Long Lake
*Chapter Six, Round Pond
*Chapter Seven, Allagash Falls
*Chapter Eight, To Allagash Village
Part Two, Lumbering in the Early Years
*Prologue, Bangor
*Chapter Nine, Dam It All
*Chapter Ten, Mushrat Murphy
*Chapter Eleven, The Tramway
*Chapter Twelve, Jill-Pokes in the WIllywags
*Chapter Thirteen, Eagle Lake ℜWest Branch Railroad
*Chapter Fourteen, Big Jim's Crew
*Epilogue
Part Three, Native Americans
*Prologue
*Chapter Fifteen, The Bear Clan
*Chapter Sixteen, Hawk-In-Flight's Moose
*Chapter Seventeen, The Burn
*Chapter Eighteen, Reunion with Grey Wolf
*Chapter Nineteen, Rogue Bear
*Chapter Twenty, The Goose Hunt
*Chapter Twenty-one, Running Bear's Journey
*Chapter Twenty-two, Winter Camp
*Epilogue
 

Notă biografică

Gil Gilpatrick has been a Master Maine Guide for over 40 years and has taught Outdoor Resources at the Skowhegan Vocational Center in Maine for nearly 30 years. He has written extensively about his experiences in the outdoors and his knowledge of how to build outdoor equipment. His titles include: Building Snowshoes and Snowshoe Furniture, The Outdoor Leader's Handbook, Building Outdorr Gear, Building a Strip Canoe, Allagash, and The Allagash Guide. He is a member of the New England Outdoor Writers Association and a columnist for Northwoods Sporting Journal.
 

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Take a Wilderness Trip Filled with Awe and Adventure Legendary Maine Guide Gil Gilpatrick skillfully weaves fact and fiction to whisk you back through time on the Allagash waterway. Gilpatrick starts your journey by guiding you through the present-day Allagsh region. Significant historic and natural sights are highlighted and punctuated with anecdotes of personal experiences. You'll learn about Maine's colorful lumbering industry that dates back to the middle of the 1800s. Discover what a well-engineered operation lumbering was, and the hard everyday life of a lumberman. Along the way, Gilpatrick introduces you to lumberjack characters like Mushrat Murphy, and takes you to lumber camps and onto the river to experience the life of the river driver. A historic journey on the ALlagash is not complete without the Bear Clan of the Wabnaki, whose use of the river has been traced back to the end of the last ice age. You'll revel in the colorful lore and legend of these Native American's, and get acquainted with the Great Spirit, or Manitou, and Gluskabe, a tribal hero. This book, along with Gilpatrick's book The Allagash Guide, will make you an Allagash expert the first time out.