Kayaking


The Complete Sea Kayaker's Handbook
Sea Kayak: A Manual for Intermediate and Advanced Sea Kayakers
Quiet Water New York: Canoe & Kayak Guide (AMC Quiet Water Series)
Half a Chance
Kayak: The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique
Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent
Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
Simple Kayak Navigation: Practical Piloting for the Passionate Paddler
Canoeing & Kayaking New York (Canoe and Kayak Series)
Paddle Scotland: The Best Places to Go with a Paddleboard, Kayak or Canoe (Paddling Guides)
Squirt Boating and Beyond: How to Rip in Anything That Squirts
Without a Paddle: Racing Twelve Hundred Miles Around Florida by Sea Kayak
The Pacific Alone: The Untold Story of Kayaking's Boldest Voyage
All the Way Round
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Stumbling Thru by A. Digger StolzGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonLucky by Scott NelsonThe Disallowed by Owen  JonesA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Backpacking & Paddling Books
112 books — 91 voters

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots & Ropework by Geoffrey BudworthComplete Book of Decorative Knots by Geoffrey BudworthThe Book of Camping Knots by Peter  OwenThe Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. AshleyThe Bluejacket's Manual by U.S. Department of the Navy
Practical Knots & Knotting
17 books — 4 voters
Whatever Comes My Way by Roger GaessBelgium on a Bounce by Roger GaessEchoes In The Walls by Katrina MorganNomads Colony in Paradise Island by ZaiN BabaA Narrowboat at Large by Jo May
Best Adventure Travel Memoir
302 books — 311 voters

Last Child in the Woods by Richard LouvEndurance by Alfred LansingA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Starship & the Canoe by Kenneth BrowerArctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Books for Outdoor Guides
42 books — 13 voters
Downriver by Will HobbsBrian's Return by Gary PaulsenCrabbe by William BellRiver Thunder by Will HobbsGhost Canoe by Will Hobbs
YA & Middle Grade Rafting/Canoeing
36 books — 5 voters

The thing about life is we already know the ending is death. Personally I have tried to at least give the bits in the middle every chance of surprising me. We all start and end the same , but what happens in between might be up to us
Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

Kim Heacox
We are not here to exist; we are here to live, to face death and stare it down. We are here to trust in God and to embrace this world in all its quiet and violent beauty, to break down the walls of our own prejudices and believe in something greater than ourselves. We are here to paddle into our worst fears and come out the other side to discover glaciers, to meet them face-to-face, and to celebrate a sense of wonder and God's plan that we find only in Nature. ...more
Kim Heacox, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How A Visionary And The Glaciers Of Alaska Changed America

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