Written by a senior faculty member and program supervisor at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), this guide covers every type of canoeing from open water to whitewater, and even paddling in ice. There’s experience-based advice on choosing and outfitting your canoe, expedition planning, and navigation, plus using lines, basic strokes, basic maneuvers, and drills, rigging, loading and unloading, and carrying and moving your craft.