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Nothing is Impossible
Nothing is Impossible
The Verlen Kreuger story.
This book was suggested to me by a guy on another forum who is interested in paddling my Superior Expedition boat which is akin to the Kreuger...

Started Mar 2nd, 2012 at 8:35pm by mastertangler
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Panzer Leader
This is quite simply an amazing book by General Heinz Guderian. If you are a military history buff this will likely be different than anything else you may of read. The book details Guderians interest...

Started Sep 19th, 2012 at 12:36pm by mastertangler
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The Old Way North
Great book by David Pelly who has studied and traveled with the Dene and Cree of the Hudson Bay area. Great account of Ernest Oberholer and Billy Magee's epic journey to Hudson Bay in 1912. Filled wit...

Started May 7th, 2012 at 2:37pm by Northman
0 1102 Last Post May 7th, 2012 at 2:37pm
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The Superior North Shore (Thomas Waters)
The Superior North Shore, A Natural History of Lake Superior's Northern Lands and Waters. By Thomas Waters.
This book is a great resource of historical fact. It VERY meticulously disects and reas...

Started Jan 17th, 2007 at 6:14am by screamingwindigo
0 1953 Last Post Jan 17th, 2007 at 6:14am
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Drop City, Yiddish Policemen's Union
Now for something completely different--Drop City by T. C. Boyle.  Hippie commune in N. California gets the boot from the local authorities, scores an old school bus and heads for Alaska where the hea...

Started Feb 18th, 2008 at 12:38am by Springer
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"Wintering" by Peter Geye
Just finished this exceptionally well-written novel set in the Gunflint area & Quetico.  The "wintering" part takes place in Quetico.  That adventure is woven well into and integral to a larger tale a...

Started Oct 3rd, 2018 at 10:25pm by Jimbo
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River Stories
I just read "River Stories" by Rob Kesselring.  I recommend it as a primer on how one man and his family somehow escaped the natural consequence of complacency, which is too often disaster.  Somehow t...

Started Apr 28th, 2014 at 8:55pm by Gavia
0 1219 Last Post Apr 28th, 2014 at 8:55pm
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Fiction by Paul Torday, paperback about $11 from bookdepository.com, amazon.com, etc
This has just been released as a movie and I don't think the book has been reviewed on QJ, so here it is. Much...

Started Feb 17th, 2011 at 8:42am by Joe_Schmeaux
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New audiobook with a BWCA setting
Perhaps it's not exactly a "Bookshelf" item, but certainly related.  I just had to mention that my first book (set in the BWCA), Fugitives from Northwoods, has been made made into an audiobook. It was...

Started Feb 26th, 2015 at 4:27pm by cbostic
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Rick Bass' "The Wild Marsh"
Anybody on QJ a fan of Rick Bass, the Montana writer/environmental activist?
I've met him a couple of times and interviewed him on two occasions (once about a pending lecture and once about then-...

Started Sep 30th, 2016 at 2:26pm by kypaddler
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