Canoe Country

[cwf]

Are the illustrations from this book familiar to all?

 

[Todd F]

No, please do tell...

 

[Dave Osborn]

Francis Lee Jacques…illustrated many early canoe and wilderness related books.

 

[cwf]

I found this book among my late father in law's stuff. I think it was the illustrations that interested him, rather than the canoe. The book was published in 1938 by the University of Minnesota Press.

Francis illustrated and his wife Florence wrote the text. There are six canoe illustrations and many wildlife ones, here are the other five.

 

[Gary]

If you like his artistry, you would like one of his other books "Snowshoe Country" as well.
Also Sigurd Olson who wrote a number of great books on canoeing and the Boundary Waters Area had Francis illustrate some of his books as well, such as "The Singing Wilderness".