CANOE TRAVELLING
by Warington Baden Powell
In this charming cruising story, Baden-Powell and his companion undertake a cruise in the Nautilus and Isis canoes through Holstein, Denmark and Sweden, camping along the way and experiencing all the joys and vagaries of the canoe cruiser of today. Baden-Powell was the elder brother of the founder of the Boy Scouts and the developer of the very successful and much copied line of Nautilus canoes in the late nineteenth century. Continuing on in the traditon of MacGregor and his Rob Roy, the Nautilus canoe was especially designed for canoe cruising and as such was light weight, strongly built and rigged with a sail. From the beginning of Chapter 1: The upper portions of the Thames, with a light boat and fine weather, may be satisfactory enough to one man, whilst to another the conditions of recreation will be better fulfilled by roaming through distant countries, with somewhat of danger and difficulty to overcome. A stiff breeze, wild scenery, freedom of dress and action, with the perplexities of a strange language, may be preferred to being guided by a tourist's handbook from a first-class Swiss railway carriage to the comfortable monster hotel, with its obsequious English-speaking waiters. The first half of the book is concerned with their cruise through Holstein, Sweden and Denmark, and the latter half to Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Out Canoes with much useful information for the canoe cruiser.
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