canoes and canoeing

Describes the sights and sounds of a quiet canoe journey down the river at dusk when the herons, owls, bats, and deers come out.

Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

A guide to wilderness canoeing and camping, offering advice on how to select and purchase a canoe and other equipment; providing information on canoe skills such as portaging, paddling, rescue and repair; discussing knots, solo canoeing, navigation, and other topics; and reviewing camping techniques.

Two English boys, David and Adam, spend the summer canoeing on the River Say and, with just an old riddle for a clue, try to find a treasure hidden along its banks by one of Adam's ancestors.

Franklin Crabbe, an angry, rebellious eighteen-year-old, skips his final exams and disappears into the Canadian wilderness, where a woman with her own reasons for hiding teaches him how to survive, as well as how to live.

Chronicles a six-day canoe voyage through the Carolinas along the Waccamaw River.

After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.