" The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints.
And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name." -- Chicago Sun-Times "In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats." -- Kirkus Reviews Originally published in 1978, The Starship.
It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. " The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints