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Tables of Contents for The Armchair Paddler
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
3
I. BEGINNINGS
The Lonely Land
4
5
Sigurd F. Olson
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
9
6
John McPhee
Baidarka: The Kayak
15
6
George Dyson
The Starship and the Canoe
21
9
Kenneth Brower
Canoeing With the Cree
30
8
Eric Sevareid
II. BIG DROPS
Rivergods
38
5
Richard Bangs
Christian Kallen
Shiva Winked
43
5
Tim Cahill
Deliverance
48
7
James Dickey
Canyon
55
9
Michael Ghiglieri
Running the Amazon
64
5
Joe Kane
Kayaking the Full Moon
69
6
Steve Chapple
River
75
7
Colin Fletcher
III. THE FAR NORTH
Dangerous River
82
5
R. M. Patterson
Running Wilberforce Canyon
87
6
Bill Mason
Reading the River
93
11
John Hildebrand
Summer North of Sixty
104
6
James Raffan
IV. GRAND CANYON
Broken Waters Sing
110
8
Gaylord Staveley
River Runners of the Grand Canyon
118
6
David Lavender
Romance of the Colorado River
124
5
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
A River Mystery
129
7
Scott Thybony
V. JOURNEY ABROAD
Travels With a Kayak
136
8
Whit Deschner
In the Belly of the Earth
144
10
Andrzej Pietowski
A Boat in Our Baggage
154
6
Maria Coffey
Santa Maria!
160
10
Jamie McEwan
VI. OUT TO SEA
Alone at Sea
170
6
Hannes Lindermann
On Celtic Tides
176
9
Chris Duff
Kayaking the Inside Passage
185
8
Byron Ricks
Paddle to the Arctic
193
9
Don Starkell
VII. PRESERING OUR RIVERS
The Sound of Mountain Water
202
7
Wallace Stegner
Goodbye to a River
209
6
John Graves
The Struggle for a River
215
6
Tim Palmer
There Was a River
221
6
Bruce Berger
About the Contributors
227
3
Permissions
230