Water Bibliography

From WildWiki

Introduction to Canoeing and Northern Ontario Return to Water Curriculum

Callan, Kevin. “Wabikimi Provincial Park.” Ontario’s Lost Canoe Routes. Erin, ONT: Boston Mills Press, 2002.

Neimi, Judith, “Mucky Waters: A Hudson Bay Journal.” Rivers Running Free: A Century of Women’s Canoeing Adventures. Seattle, Washington: Seal Press, 1997.

Guillion, Laurie. “Characteristics of Boats.” Canoeing and Kayaking Instruction Manual. Birmingham: Menshasa Ridge Press, 1987.

Olsen, Sigurd. “The Way of a Canoe.” The Singing Wilderness. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993.


Natural History of the Northern Boreal Forest

Henry, J. David. “The Sweep of the Taiga.” Canada’s Boreal Forest. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 2002.

Outwater, Alice. “The Fur Trade”; and, “Nature’s Hydrologist.” Water, A Natural History. New York: Basic Books. 1996.


Cultural History of Northern Ontario & the Fur Trade

Campbell, George. “Paddlers of the North.” Thunder Bay: Guide Printing and Publishing, 1981.

“Ojibway Culture” from http//:www.turtle-island.com.

Morriseau, Norval. “The Thunderbird Beliefs”; “Ojibway Beliefs About Nature, Weather, and Other Different Matters”; and, “The White Man’s Coming to the Nipigon Area.” Legends of My People. Toronto: McGraw Hill, 1965.


Environmental Issues and Ethics

Leopold, Aldo. “Conservation Esthetic.” A Sand County Almanac. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949.

Orr, David W. “ What is Education For?” Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994

Scott, Douglas W. A Brief History of Wilderness Time.” Return of the Wild. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.


Contemplative Readings

Ammons, A.R. “Poetics.” A Simpler Way. San Francisco: Barret-Koehler Publishers, 1995.

Chapell, Steve. “Bugz.” Listening to the Earth. San Francisco: Pearson-Longman, 2005.

Kingsolver, Barbara. “Introduction: Knowing Our Places.” Off The Beaten Path: Stories of Place. New York: North Point Press, 1998.

Oliver, Mary. “Wild Geese.” New and Selected Poems. Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1993.