The Happy Camper Book Reviews - #3 Outdoor Books to be Read Back to Back

[@5heinens]

Love these book reviews!

[@denisesarazin6753]

Wonderful list!

[@Ron.U1]

Liking the book reviews, always looking for good reads. Thanks !

[@rerolley]

I have read Canoeing with the Cree and Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak. After reading Paddle to the Amazon, I think I will skip Don's version of the trip.

[@decentdiversions]

Really enjoying this series. Hope it makes readers out of more of us! Christine's got good ideas! Not paddling specific but would enjoy your reviews of A Sand County Almanac and Cache Lake Country.

[@richardswinson4381]

Twould be nice to see Ray Godwin do a book review. Thank you by the way for being an amazing fab person. Will you be doing any more whiskey fireside chats.

[@canoeingnav7618]

Great book review Kevin. I am not surprised we have similar taste in books. Just order one you have that I don't, Hudson Bay Bound. Keep up the great work. Oh yes, love the side bars with Kristine.

[@TheHappyCamper]

Thanks. Hudson Bay Bound is a unique read on the route.

[@k.n.v.b1113]

Uncle Kev needs some 21 year old scotch for Christmas !

[@adkkev]

Canoeing With The Cree … written by Eric Sev-er-ide (that’s how you pronounce it) … he went on to become a very accomplished and famous journalist/broadcaster with CBS News. 😀 Great book reviews!

[@TheHappyCamper]

Thanks for this.

[@alphawhiskyadventures]

I bought Victoria Jason’s book from her daughter when she was selling them to raise funds for a sign at park in my neighbourhood named after her. I never read Don’s book, and after reading her’s have no interest in doing so. It is a great read.

[@denisesarazin6753]

Same. I refuse to read his book after reading Victoria’s

[@rerolley]

Eric Sevareid was a CBS news reporter. You can hear him pronounce his name in his signoff from November 1977 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/onmqeaBunrWYi7s

[@alexs3447]

too many books and stories to handle. But I dreamt last night i was camping at the north end of Opeongo . Great speck fishing but then hassles with other people camping nearby. Oh well still seemed to have fun.

[@canajian]

🖐😎👍🏕

[@bushwackerfilms]

Good collection Kevin! Didn't know about Hudson Bay Bound. Thanx! I just re-read the whole Hubbard encyclopedia. I'm surprised you didn't mention The Long Labrador Trail, Wallace's account of his second trip? There's a couple more that go with that saga... The Woman Who Mapped Unknown Labrador (Mina's diary and some insightful background/analysis) and Challenge the Wilderness: The Legend of George Elson by Clayton Klein. The Kesselheim books you mentioned are among my favourites too. But his latest, Let Them Paddle, about the family's return to paddle each of his three children's 'birth rivers' (they all did a trip in the womb) to celebrate their coming of age, is the icing on that cake. Other back-to-backers might include Moffat (Death on the Barrens by George Grinnell, Barren Grounds by Fred Pessl, On the Dubawnt with Arthur Moffatt: The Diary of Joe Lanouette by Joe Lanouette) and Hornby (Snowman by Malcolm Waldron, Legend of John Hornby by George Whalley, Unflinching by Edgar Christian, Dance of the Deadmen by Hap Wilson, Letters From the Barren Lands by James Charles Critchell-Bullock). Waiting to see what else you've got on your bookshelf...👍

[@TheHappyCamper]

You're right. I should have mentioned the other Wallace book. Darn. I will write up a blog about the entire collection. Kesselheims Let Them Paddle is in the mail. I saw it the other day and ordered it. And thanks for the other suggestions. I have all those and must put them in some sort of review.