Bark Canoes: The Art and Obsession of Tappan Adney

Bark Canoes, is a great addition to any library of the out doors, water sports, history, the Great Lakes, or First Peoples art. Beautiful pictures of beautiful models. A good story of the man who preserved an art treasure.

I work at a maritime museum and I am always referencing all the time. Now I finally have my own personal copy!

excellent color photos, added to my knowledge of bark canoes.....Dave

This book deals with the on site observations of a very clever and astute man . He gives in vivid detail the building and decoration of the early canoes used by the native peoples of New Brunswick and the eastern provinces of Canada.

Tappan Adney is a relative thru my paternal genealogy side, and his canoes are in a New York museum.Thought it would be nice to have his books for my children and grandchildren to read. Wish I could have gotten them in hard copy and one of the orginial printings.

Contains many beautiful photos

What a beautiful book this is - I saw it in a museum shop in Calgary while on holiday and I just had to have it. This is a celebration of the canoe-builders' art that almost never materialsed. Adney's notes and models could well have disappeared had it not been for some timely intervention by far-sighted individuals to preserve the collection and organise his notes into this and other books.But surely a canoe is a canoe is a canoe... not after reading this! Such wonderfully crisp photos, taken from all angles with great depth of field, give a complete idea of each craft. The subtleties of design, use of materials and construction techniques leave one in no doubt as to the differences in ethnic origins beween canoes that at first glance look more or less similar.The quality and detail of the notes that Adney made for each drawing is a lesson for all would-be modellers ... nothing seems to have been left out; insets have minute details highlighted; there are cross-sections of ordinary-looking bits of wood; and stages in construction and building techniques are shown. Adney's models are a testament - both to human ingenuity in the use of available materials, and to one man's lifelong devotion to preserving a dying craft (in both senses).His contribution to art, ethnology and archaeology cannot be overstated.

A beautifully illustrated book of Adney's remarkable models. Anyone interested in birch bark canoes should find it a welcome addition

It's a great book if you have an interest in canoes, small boats & native history. Very pleased!

this was a gift for my nephew he really like it

Je fabrique également des canots et ce volume est une excellente source d’information, les images sont exceptionnelles et les articles sont très inspirants.

Definitely adds to the culture of the Canadian canoe.

Bel libro , belle foto e molto completo , pur essendo usato è arrivato in ottime condizioni.Sono molto soddisfatto.