📚 Canoes & Canoeing

The paddled boat: the canoe’s indigenous origins, the tour, and the white water.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject canoes and canoeing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Canoeing in the wilderness	Henry David Thoreau	1916	71
	Path of the paddle	Mason, Bill.	1980	11
	Canoe and boat building	William Picard Stephens	1889	10
	Survival of the Bark Canoe	John McPhee	1975	10
	Voices of the River	Jan Cheripko	1993	9
	Whitewater, quietwater	Bob Palzer	1973	7
	Song of the paddle	Mason, Bill.	1988	7
	Canoeing	Laurie Gullion	1994	6
	Building a strip canoe	Gil Gilpatrick	1983	5
	Hiking south Florida and the Keys	M. Timothy O'Keefe	2009	5
	A thousand miles in the Rob Roy canoe on rivers and lakes of Europe	MacGregor, John	1866	4
	Canoeing and camping	James A. Cruikshank	1915	4
	How to build and manage a canoe	Alec R. Ellis	1949	4
	Guide to the waterways of the British Isles	British Canoe Union.	1951	4
	Rushton and His Times in American Canoeing	Atwood Manley	1968	4
	The Canoe Camper's Handbook	Ray Bearse	1974	4
	Keystone canoeing	Edward Gertler	1985	4
	Mississippi solo	Eddy L. Harris	1988	4
	A canoeist's sketchbook	Robert Kimber	1991	4
	Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes	Gary Dierking	2007	4
	Paddling Montana	Kit Fischer	2015	4
	Canoeing A-Z	Ruth Elvedt	1946	3
	Canoeing A-Z	Ruth L. Elvedt	1946	3
	The canoeing manual	Noel McNaught	1956	3
	Canoes and canoeing	Percy W. Blandford	1962	3
	Canoeing complete	Brian Skilling	1966	3
	Coaching handbook	British Canoe Union.	1969	3
	Complete guide to canoeing and canoe-camping	John W. Malo	1969	3
	Pole, paddle & portage	Bill Riviere	1969	3
	Wilderness canoeing	John W. Malo	1971	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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