Encounters from a Kayak Native People, Sacred Places, and Hungry Polar Bears

Name: Encounters from a Kayak Native People, Sacred Places, and Hungry Polar Bears
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ISBN: 9780762781065

ISBN-10: 0762781068

ISBN-13: 9780762781065

Edition: 2012

Authors: nigel Foster

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What makes travel special? Perhaps the chill realization that a polar bear's eyes are fixed on you. Maybe it is the chance meeting with a man who buries sharks in a beach, only to dig them up months later, not out of morbid curiosity, but for food. Perhaps it is the undulating wing-beat of a dark shell-less gastropod in the canal of a 17th Century French sea port, or the criminal history of a rusting ship with a tree growing from its hold.Encounters in a Kayakbrings the reader along on the magical experiences that surround sea kayaking. It’s about the animals, people, and special places around the globe that have grabbed the attention of renowned kayaker and writer Nigel Foster. His…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 11/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 255
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword


Creatures



Monkey Business in the Florida Keys



1666 and the Sea Hare



Tubenoses



Bear, Be Gone!



Manatees



Gannets



Seals and Selkies



Bioluminescence



Sitka Humpback Whales



Peregrines



Alligators



Newfoundland Squid


People



Ungava Encounter



Farewell to Phyllis



Escape from Holland



Flatey Fishermen



Muldoan and Maxwell



Trees with Knees: Boatbuilders in Newfoundland



When Dead Sharks Have the Last Word


Places



Searching for Mermaids' Tears



Kayaking below Sea Level



Summertime in Sweden



Queen Charlotte Islands



Shetland by Sunlight



Across France by Canal



Faeroe Islands Reveal a Dark Secret



Iceland Revisited (Portage)



When Shanghai Police Have the Last Word


Flotsam and Jetsam



Helena Star



In the Wake of the Braer



Driftwood



Whisky on the Rocks



Seiche



Norma and Gladys



Glass Fishing Floats



When Lightning Strikes



On the Trail of a B-17



Watermills and Whale Ears



When Whales Have the Last Word


Appendix


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author