Rediscovering the Great Plains Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse【電子書籍】[ Norman Scott Henderson ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Engaging travel memoir recounts author's adventures traveling in Canada's Qu'Appelle River Valley via horse, canoe, and Native American dogsled.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The North American Plains are one of the world's great landscapesーperhaps the signature landscape of the continent. Today, the most intimate experience most of us have of the great grasslands is from behind the window of a car or train. It was not always so. In the earliest days, Plains Indians traveled on foot across the vastness, with only the fierce, wolflike Plains dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of the Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the Plains. In ＜em＞Rediscovering the Great Plains＜/em＞, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world's great temperate grasslands, revives these traditional modes of travel, journeying along 200 miles of Canada's Qu'Appelle River valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by Native Americans to transport goods), then by canoe, ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る