No comments about The Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California, Containing Scenes and Incidents of a Party of Oregon Emigrants.

No comments about Ghost Towns of Muskoka.

2 comments about Stories from the Bow Seat: The Wisdom and Waggery of Canoe Tripping.

1. Stories from the Bow Seat is a feast for the senses that brings to life the wonder, the splendor, and the down and dirty reality of the North and canoe travel. The photographs immerse you in the mud, bugs, joy, and divine beauty of Canada. They transport you back to your own adventures and to the adventures of voyageurs long ago. I have shared this book with friends and they have all experienced the same yearning to return to the North and to rediscover their own wildness. If you haven't been lucky enough or daring enough to travel into the wilderness,this book will help you to understand those who speak so reverently and sometimes with such obsession about their canoe experiences. This is a truly beautiful book.



2. From the evokative, shimmeringly beautiful images captured by Don Stanfield to the prose scultped by Liz Lundell this book is a treaure. The places are displayed as our memory would hope, and persons portrayed in this masterful tribute to wilderness are the perople who know it and know how to enjoy it.

   Look at the faces of 16 year old girls on Stanfield's image :"Voyageurs nouvelles return home on the last day of a 50-day trip" and the magic of the north is incarnate. Spot on.

   As a gift or when you need a lift away from urban blight: This is IT!

No comments about Montreal & Quebec City For Dummies (Dummies Travel).

No comments about Hiking the North Cascades.

3 comments about Alaska Bicycle Touring Guide: Including Parts of the Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories.

1. The second edition is a useful book covering all the major roads in Alaska and the Alaska Highway as far as Whitehorse, YT. Information is organized by region and then by roads within those regions. An introductory section describes the background of the area and provides land management and emergency information. Any communities the cyclist will pass through are described and services relevant to cycle touring are listed. Roads are broken into approximately 80-mile segments with a small elevation profile provided for each. The terrain and road surface are described and the mile post locations of any junctions, water sources, camping, food, lodging, and roadside sights are tersely noted. No mile-by-mile description is provided. Unfortunately, the service information is dated as north-country businesses seem to pop up and shut down with alarming frequency. Coupled with the Milepost, this is a helpful book. Those used to hand-holding touring guides with detailed ride notes may be disappointed.



2. I think this book would have been useful several years ago but this edition is almost 10 years old and the information contained is out of date. The elevation profiles provided for the roads in Alaska are also misleading and not detailed enough to be reliable.

   I wouldn't recommend that you buy this book if you intend to tour Alaska. Buy a general guide book (Lonely Planet or Rough Guide) and get some decent maps instead.




3. We just used the book as a guide to ride down the Dempster Highway (along with the Mileposts pages) and it was our best information. Even after 25 years, the information about where to find water, good camping, etc. was quite useful. And bike tourists always like to have some elevation profiles, even though you have to go over the hill whether you have a profile or not. Thanks for the book!

No comments about Evergreen Pacific Exploring Alaska and British Columbia.

No comments about Prairie Provinces (Amazing Photos) (Amazing Photos).

No comments about Cycling Canada : Bicycle Touring in Canada (The Active Travel Series).

No comments about Rand McNally Toronto, Canada Easyfinder (Rand McNally Easyfinder).