I don't remember all the details (and I haven't looked my voluminous notes on it lately) but I remember that "Kayaking: Whitewater and Touring Basics" was the worst book I had ever read on kayak touring. I don't especially like a lot of the books on sea kayaking and would disagree with some things in the best of them (except maybe in Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation, which I helped edit). Some are a lot better than others but this one was hands down the worst book on kayaking I've seen so far. As I remember, it seemed to me like almost everything in the text was backwards or bad advice at least in regards to the kayak touring part. Some nice pictures by my friend Joel Rogers in it though. The first copy I got a few years ago (when it first came out) is still on the store shelf as I wouldn't dare sell it to some poor unsuspecting new kayaker so warn them against buying it. Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 22:44:01 PDT
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