In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-Bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used.
It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Wo.
The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology.
In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-Bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used