Sea Kayaking Vancouver Island
Sea Kayaking Vancouver Island
We're rather obsessed by books written about coastal British Columbia, especially those written by local authors. We thought it might be nice to share some of these with our guests so we took a quick look at the shelves and came up with this short list of interesting titles. All the links point to Amazon or course!
British Columbia Classics   Kayaking Technique
Early Explorers   Kayak Travel
First Nations   Kayaking Novels
Environmental   Miscellany
British Columbia Classics    Up
A Shimmer on the Horizon
Fishing With John
From Fjord to Floathouse - one family's journey from the farmlands of Norway to the coast of British Columbia
Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska
Seven-knot Summers
Spilsbury's Coast: Pioneer Years in the Wet West (Spilsbury Saga)
The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest
Totem Poles And Tea
Upcoast summers

Early Explorers    Up
Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
The Journals of Captain Cook

Environmental    Up
Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac
Ecological Literacy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World
Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story
Pacific Coast (Audubon Society Nature Guides)
The Only Kayak: A Journey into the Heart of Alaska
The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management

Kayaking Technique    Up
Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
Sea Kayaking: A Manual for Long-Distance Touring

Kayaking Novels    Up
Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage
Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak: One Woman's Journey Through the North West Passage
Keep Australia On Your Left: A True Story of An Attempt To Circumnavigate Australia By Kayak
May We Rant and Roar no More: A Sea Kayak Journey Around Newfoundland
support the "walktheline" sustainability project - buy a signed copy of this great book direct from the author
On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak
Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage

Sea Kayaking Travel    Up
Kayaking in Paradise: Journey from Alaska Through the Inside Passage
Kayaking the Inside Passage: A Paddling Guide from Olympia, Washington to Muir Glacier, Alaska
Kayak Routes of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Kayaking Vancouver Island: Great Trips from Port Hardy to Victoria
Paddling Through Time: A Kayaking Journey Through Clayoquot Sound
Sea Kayak Barkley & Clayoquot Sounds
Sea Kayak Desolation Sound & the Sunshine Coast
The Wild Coast 1: A Kayaking, Hiking and Recreational Guide for North and West Vancouver Island
The Wild Coast: Volume 2: A Kayaking, Hiking and Recreational Guide for the North and Central B.C. Coast

First Nations    Up
Guests Never Leave Hungry: The Autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian
Kwakwaka'Wakw Settlements, 1775-1920: A Geographical Analysis and Gazetteer (Northwest Native Studies, Vol 1)
Living on the Edge: Nuu-Chah-Nulth History from an Ahousaht Chief's Perspective
The Terror of the Coast: Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1848 - 1863
The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874
Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview
Ts'ishaa: Archaeology and Ethnography of a Nuu-Chah-Nulth Origin Site in Barkley Sound

Miscellany    Up
Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell
Bijaboji: North to Alaska by Oar
Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor's Raincoast
Just east of sundown: The Queen Charlotte Islands
Portrait of Alaska's Inside Passage
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
Standing by Words: Essays
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
The Last Voyage of the Loch Ryan
The Long-Legged House
The Wild Edge: Clayoquot, Long Beach And Barkley Sound
Women of the West Coast - Then and Now
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