One of my favorite books Undaunted Courage -The Lewis and Clark Journey

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Darren
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Winter is here and since I can't canoe I like to kill time with some reading, and one of my favorite reading topics is American history with the book Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose as my absolute favorite book. It's about the Lewis & Clark journey up the Missouri River to the Pacific and probably my favorite read because the Lewis & Clark trip, in my mind, was the greatest wilderness canoe trip.

It happens that maybe one in every ten books I read are so engaging that I
can't put it down, and Undaunted Courage was one of those books. I recommend it to any paddler who is suffering from the winter blues.

Happy reading.

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natecanoes
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Something you might be interested in. normanmiller.blogspot.com

Norm miller retraced Lewis and Clarks route a few years back. It's on his blog

Posted 6 months ago #
Dennis
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That is a great book. I also like reading about the explorerers on the other side of the border up in Canada.

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Posted 6 months ago #
BWCAJohn
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That is a great book. As far as epic canoe trips go I have always been a huge fan of the book Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid. If you haven't read it, it is the story of two teenagers who paddled from Minneapolis, MN to Hudson Bay in one season.

I love this book for a number of reasons. It is a pretty easy read and not too terribly long so the story isn't too drawn out and never gets dull.

When the two paddlers left, neither had much camping or canoeing experience and were both pretty young, I think 17 and 19. It is a testament to their courage and perserverance that they reached their destination at all.

They also completed this trip at a time when adequete maps and modern safety devices like GPS or sat phones had not yet been invented. They survived through a combination of luck and good old fashioned common sense.

This might be a great topic if there isn't one already. "Favorite paddling books reviewed".

A blog about my trip down the Mississippi River: http://www.uwca2gulf.blogspot.com. Follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bwcajohn

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