View topic - Book: Mackenzie River Guide

By Michelle Swallow with illustrations by Farah Denkovski. 2011.
Good maps and much more. 108+pages. Cost me $34.95 in Yellowknife.

Douglas

Thanks for the tip!
I posted a reference to the book at
http://myccr.com/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=38104
under Mackenzie River Information.
Do you have the publisher’s name and location? I couldn’t find either online.

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A literal mind is a little mind. If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all. Good enough isn't.  None are so blind as those who choose not to see. (AJ)

Not the same book but i recently picked up this one from Chapters. Its actually written like a travel guide. About 95% of it is about the water route of the MacKenzie river part of the trans Canada trail.
Full colour. Maps, pictures, histroy, points of interest, available services along the way etc

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/sea ... ageSize=12

hopefully I'll put it to use someday

Allan, the book is self published by Michelle Swallow, Yellowknife, NWT and printed and bound in Canada by Friesens, Altona, Manitoba.

Some casual googling said it was available from www.canoenorth.ca.

Most self published books are disappointing, but this is a professional job.
The author says that "It took a lot of help from a lot of friends to write about this river" over the 5 years of writing and all this labor shows. I saw a copy in Overlander Sports in Yellowknife and just had to buy it.

Thanks also to mark m for bringing Bastedo's book to my attention.

Douglas
The book is loaded with quotations by Alexander Mackenzie,

Thanks for another tip.
Posted that one too, in the same place.

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A literal mind is a little mind. If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all. Good enough isn't.  None are so blind as those who choose not to see. (AJ)

thanks Douglas

I'll pick one of these up too