Each year, I get a new Canoe Routes Map (or 2), the Friends' Calendar, and a full set of The Raven. Usually buy them from the access office, but at least once a year try to get to either the West or East Gate for the complete set of The Raven and some other items.
I'd have to go home and physically look at my collection, but off the top of my head;
Norm Quinn - Algonquin Wildlife
Lake Depths of Algonquin Park(Big Book Series)
Trees of Algonquin Park(Big Book Series), Can't believe it, you don't have this one Barbara.
As a matter of fact, put me down for every book in the big book series..I have'em all, and love every single one of htem...what a wealth of excellent info and for so cheap too!
People and places of Algonquin Park - Coffee Table book..can't remember the author's name
hmmm, I make my own Algonquin calendar! heh heh
Ester Kaiser's (sp?) - Paddling my own Canoe
Ron Corbett - the last guide
The incomplete angler - John Robins
etc, etc..all great reads, some better than others, depending on your personal interests.
Markus
Etobicoke, Onterry-airy-airy-Ohhh!
Harry
65.95.56.35
Your Algonquin Park library
March 31 2008, 4:42 PM
Barb,
I have the Donald Lloyd and Kevin Callan books as well, have some work to do to catch up to you and Markus. With the internet and all you AAers sharing info, may not need to expand.
Backroad Mapbook AP Region (3 editions – 2006, and 2 from 1999)
Mushrooms of APPark (1986?)
A few others kicking around in the living room downstairs.
Barbara
99.239.36.128
Re: Your Algonquin Park library
March 31 2008, 11:58 PM
Harry, it's a fatal combination...a love of books and a love of Algonquin. When I win one of these darned big lotteries, I'll be ordering everything listed in the Algonquin Bookstore that I don't already have.
And Mark...geez. That's spooky...I forgot, I do have the Trees of Algonquin book. Bought it and Fishes of Algonquin in the same shopping excursion as Trailblazers and the Management Plan.
What in your opinion is worth adding to the library?
Mine being so limited, I can only add Incomplete Anglers. But in my experience of reading literature in general, there have been some definite regrets with respect to purchases in other genres
Excellent 'disclaimer'. Thought provoking and entertaining.
Foxco
205.211.96.100
Re: Your Algonquin Park library
April 1 2008, 11:17 AM
Don Lloyd's book is still the most popular one in my small library....the combination of maps, his drawings and his personal recollections spanning over a half centure of AP history always make for good reading.
Foxco
Somewhere in the
Georgian Triangle
Ontario
99.233.166.235
library
April 1 2008, 1:36 PM
I am an avid reader of all literature, algonquin and others, "Born at Brule Lake" by Mary Pigeon, ten pages long and one of the best books I have ever read. Elegant, simple, short and incredibly evocative of another time and place. The sequel, "Living at Cache Lake" by the same author, although longer at 12 pages is also good.
I loved Esther Kaiser's book.
For a rare gem, "Pringrove Through the Years", by Edmond Case is a wonderful memoir of 'Doc' Cases life at his cottage on Brule Lake from the 40's up until mid 1970's. Difficult to find. Of course I have two copies, one ordered on a rare book website for $150 the other found at the back of a second hand book store on Queen St., $10.
Dave
206.172.238.37
Re: Your Algonquin Park library
April 1 2008, 1:37 PM
Here is my collection,
Canoeing Algonquin Park - Lloyd
Great read and highly recomended !!
Paddlers Guide To Algonquin Park - Callan
The Incomplete Anglers - Robins 1943
Camping In The Muskoka Region A Story of Algonquin Park- J.Dickson Reprint 1960
Algonquin Story - Saunders Reprint 1963
Algonquin Story - Saunders ???? Same book as above but different Minister names in front and no dates.
You have to love old books at least I do !!
David
169.145.3.13
three more titles
April 4 2008, 5:41 PM
Hi; excellent lists and I am comforted that I have most if not all.
Three more titles that are worth reading, from two very different perspectives on the park:
Joe Lavally and the Paleface - a wonderful story written by a British flyer (the Paleface) at the end of WWII. On an impulse, he travels to APP and is matched up with Joe Lavally as his guide, raconteur and alter ego. Despite being written 60 years ago, you can easily recognize the locations as well as the moods and feelings that he expresses. If you love the park, if you enjoy a simple laugh and if you are starting to see life in decades as opposed to months or years, it is a treasure.
Wolf Country: Eleven Years Tracking the Algonquin Wolves by John and Mary Theberge is a must read for those passionate about the ecology and protection of APP and the wolves within it. The Theberge study of wolves may be the longest and most detailed of any of its kind, anywhere in the world. But the book is more than an ecological treatise. It is about determination to study and save a misunderstood species, it is about archaic attitudes towards wolves by many local residents and even MNR and Park staff; and it is about fighting for wilderness. The Friends bookstore doesn’t carry it but they should.
A Few Rustic Huts by S. R. Gage. Sandy researched and photographed the ranger cabins throughout the park and compiled a ton of knowledge in this book. In many cases, he carried a large format camera into the park in his canoe, set up amid the bugs and took gorgeous shots of the cabins and their interiors. The stories that accompany the book give you some idea of the use and misuse of the cabins over 100 years.
