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Nigel Foster

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Born

in St Albans, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.nigelkayaks.com

Genre

Travel, Memoir, Nonfiction

Influences

Barry Lopez, Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin

Member Since

December 2020

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Nigel Foster followed his early passion for kayaking, adventure, and the natural world, linking those to design and writing to create his unique lifestyle. Renowned worldwide for kayaking, he travels extensively to instruct, making the most of the opportunities to learn about the places he visits. Although in demand for writing technical explanations of kayak and canoe skills, he enjoys stepping away from the kayak to explore the myriad components that define a place or a face.

Born in the south of England, Foster taught Outdoor Education to schoolchildren before instructing at the National Watersports Center in Wales UK. He circled Iceland by kayak at age 24, and nearly killed himself crossing Hudson Strait solo by kayak from Baffin Island ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 74 ratings · 7 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Encounters from a Kayak: Native People, Sacred Places, And Hungry Polar Bears 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Kayaking: Everything You Need to Know About Paddling 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guide to Sea Kayaking in Southern Florida: The Best Day Trips And Tours From St. Petersburg To The Florida Keys (Regional Sea Kayaking Series) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Polar Tides: Paddling and Surviving the Coast of Northern Labrador 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nigel Foster's Sea Kayaking 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stepping Stones: Of Ungava and Labrador it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paddling Southern Florida: A Guide to the State's Greatest Paddling Areas (Paddling Series) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Canoe Technique really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nigel Foster's Surf Kayaking really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kayaking: A Beginner's Guide by Nigel Foster (Goodreads Author), Julia Claxton (Photographer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Puzzling Color

I have long been curious about water. It is such an enigmatic fluid. It falls from the sky, flows in rivers to the seas and oceans where it circulates, its surface blown into waves by the wind. Water evaporates and condenses as clouds.

Water looks clear in a glass.

Our bodies are about sixty percent water. We drink it, swimin it, bathe in it. I like to paddle my kayak over its surface. But w

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