Full name: Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods

Author: John J. Rowlands Year: 1948 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780881504217 9781581574913 0881504211 1581574916

Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days--"it was so quiet I could hear the drops from the paddle hitting the water"--he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams." He never left. He named the place Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer--timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. Cache Lake Country is a vivid and faithful chronicle of life in the great Northern Forest and a storehouse of valuable information on woodcraft and nature. Here is folklore and philosophy, but most of all wisdom about the woods and the inventiveness and self-reliance they demand. The author explains how to make moccasins, barrel stoves, lean-to shelters, outdoor bake ovens, sailing canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets, all illustrated in the margins with 230 enchanting drawings by Henry B. Kane. Similar books: A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm by Edwin Way Teale Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich The Years of the Forest by Helen Hoover The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson Dangerous River by R. M. Patterson Death in the Dark Continent by Peter Hathaway Capstick Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It by James Wesley Rawles Ghost Wave by Chris Dixon The Lonely Land by Sigurd F. Olson Beyond the Mountain by Steve House No Way Down by Graham Bowley Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler Seized by Max Hardberger In the Shadow of Denali by Jonathan Waterman Will to Live by Les Stroud True Summit by David Roberts One Mountain Thousand Summits by Freddie Wilkinson