Encounters from a Kayak: Native People, Sacred Places, and Hungry Polar Bears

by Nigel Foster and Nigel Foster

Book Overview

What makes travel special? Perhaps the chill realization that a polar bear's eyes are fixed on you. Maybe it is the chance meeting with a man who buries sharks in a beach, only to dig them up months later, not out of morbid curiosity, but for food. Perhaps it is the undulating wing-beat of a dark shell-less gastropod in the canal of a 17th Century French sea port, or the criminal history of a rusting ship with a tree growing from its hold.Encounters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762781068
• ISBN13: 9780762781065
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"