Winner of the 1999 National Outdoor Book Award: Outdoor Classic Category. Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days―"it was so quiet I could hear the drops from the paddle hitting the water"―he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams." He never left. He named the place Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer―timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. Cache Lake Country is a vivid and faithful chronicle of life in the great Northern Forest and a storehouse of valuable information on woodcraft and nature. Here is folklore and philosophy, but most of all wisdom about the woods and the inventiveness and self-reliance they demand. The author explains how to make moccasins, barrel stoves, lean-to shelters, outdoor bake ovens, sailing canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets, all illustrated in the margins with 230 enchanting drawings by Henry B. Kane.

Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods

Rowlands, John J.

Biographies & Memoirs

Countryman Press

A record of life in the great North Woods, which provides nature lovers with an abundance of information on woodcraft and the outdoors

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

UNKNO

The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, reissued for its many fans
 “Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons―a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates, and the slow and pleasurable way in which the soul of a serene man is revealed.” ―The New York Times 
Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days, he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams," which he named Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer?timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. This is his story, containing both folklore and philosophy, with wisdom about the woods and the demand therein for inventiveness. It includes directions for making moccasins, stoves, shelters, outdoor ovens, canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets. Line art throughout

Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods

Nature & Ecology

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Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods

Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods

Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods