David Gidmark has captured the fantastic efforts required when an ethnologist enters another culture in an attempt to capture one of their ancestral crafts in print.

His tenacity and determination in learning the language and the culture of the Algonkin Indians in order to record the processes and ritual involved in the crafting of a classic borchbark canoe, lead the reader on a journey of personal discovery as well.

The story will lead you through the maze of emotions and challenges required to appretice with a master canoe builder, and finally to the completion of his own birchbark canoe.

An inspirational work.