"Beyond a glistening expanse of smooth mid-river ice, dark forest beckons. It offers shelter from a hissing wind, wood for fires, and the promise of wild sojurner-spun tales before crackling stoves in warm cotton tents."
Royal Ford, The Boston Sunday Globe
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Kristin's Wilderness, A Braided Trail
Written by Garrett Conover
Watercolors by Tanya Thompson and Rod MacIver
Raven Productions
128 pages. Color throughout.
Hardcover $17.95
ISBN: 0-9766264-5-4
Winner of Several Awards:
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Lupine Award of the Maine Library Association |
Independent Publisher's Assoication: National, Bronze Medal |
Midwest Independent Publisher's Association: Regional, Top Honor |
Bronze Medal in the Young Adult category of The Moonbeam Awards |
This artistically created book tells the story of a young girl growing up among wildlife researchers in the northwoods. She finds her way into womanhood through the important relationships in her life, including the old Finnish ladies who share the sauna, two wolverines escaped from their observation pen, and the northern native people with whom she spends a winter. Generously illustrated with delicate watercolors, the story is beautiful and gentle, yet it will move you to tears and make you grin. Suggested for ages 10 and up.
"Kristin's Wilderness is a wonderous chapter book
for readers aged eight to eighty… The paintings especially
capture the mood and majesty of the natural world… in
this gently and heartwarming tribute to coming of age."
- Midwest Book Review
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Snow Walker's Companion
Winter Camping Skills for the North
by
Garrett & Alexandra Conover
Stone Ridge Press,
2006 (3rd edition)
288 pages, 6-inches x 9-inches, 32 full-color pages
Softcover $24.95
ISBN: 0976031337
Snow Walker's Companion is a guide to comfortable winter camping using tried and true traditional equipment and native skills. The Conovers show us how to sleep warm, travel safe and enjoy the white season. Guides in Maine and Labrador for over 25 years, Garrett and Alexandra have learned not only how to survive in the North in winter, but to thrive. They share their little known secrets in an easy-to-read conversational manner.
- Learn how to stay warm in extreme temperatures
- Tips on reading lake and river-ice conditions
- Practical advice on setting up tents & stoves
- Choosing the right footwear and clothing
- How to pick the best snowshoes for you
- Common sense psychology for the trail
BONUS! A 32-page color insert on Garrett & Alexandra's
epic 350 mile snowshoe trip across Ungava, Quebec. Excerpts
from their journals are highlighted with photos from the expedition.
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The following books are currently out of print, however copies may often be obtained as used books from Amazon.com
Beyond the Paddle:
A
Canoeist's Guide to Expedition Skills:
Poling, Lining, Portaging and Maneuvering through Ice
by Garrett Conover $17.95
Paperback - 105 pages (April 1991)
Tilbury House Publishers; ISBN: 0884480666
Dimensions (in inches): 0.38 x 10.98 x 8.53
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The Winter Wilderness Companion:
Traditional and Native American Skills for the Undiscovered
Season
A reissue of A Snow Walker's Companion:
Winter Trail Skills from the Far North
by Alexandra and Garrett Conover $19.95
Paperback - 384 pages 2nd edition (August 29, 2000)
McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 007136417X
Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x 8.13 x 4.39
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