Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage

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In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling North is a compilation of Sutherlands first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway. With illustrations and the authors recipes.

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My Paddling North book is now dog-eared and written in, and I will quote Audrey Sutherland for her industriousness and inquisitive nature, and because she's the type of person I'd like to be in my eighties (and now). Decades of life are compressed here, not to be processed or worked through, but honestly experienced in an organic way--because moving through the natural world also lets her mind wander back in time and place. -- SheExplores.com

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Audrey Sutherland was raised in California and has lived in Hawaii since 1952. She raised her four children as a single mother, supporting her family as a school counselor. In 1962 she decided to tour the coast of Molokai by swimming it - and towing along an inflatable raft with supplies. She has ever since been an inveterate water traveler, during the past several decades in inflatable kayak because it's transportable, light enough for her to handle comfortably and relatively inexpensive.