The ultimate how-to guide to the exciting water sports for both novices and more experienced intermediate-level paddlers, with techniques for mastering flat water, white water, open water and the sea.

An old red canoe believes its best days are behind it and reminisces on past summers' adventures with a beloved boy until the boathouse door creeks open with the possibility for new adventures.

Lured by the canoe-sized legend of a two-hundred-year-old fish, the gang packs their bags for a canoe trip upriver. Dragonfly spills the beans to the local town bullies, who follow the gang in hopes of beating them to the catch.

"Iowa's beloved paddling book. Updated. Find a new trip. Got your paddle? Let's go!"--page [4] of cover.

When Billy and his dad are injured, Tom summons the courage to get back on the water. This time, he must travel in a rickety old homemade canoe through the Alaska wilderness to get help. But it's not just the canoe and the terrain he has to worry about--he's surrounded by dangerous adversaries. Are his skills enough to fight them off or will his journey be cut short and Billy and his father left stranded?

"Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation-- an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah,...

"The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay"--