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Everything about Canoe
Light boat that is paddled
A canoe is a lightweight, narrow watercraft, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CanoeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Ocean biogeochemistry in the Canadian Earth System Model version 5.0.3: CanESM5 and CanESM5-CanOEInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Canoeing in the wildernessThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Fire in the Virgin Forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MinnesotaCited 662 times
- Go sideways: Whitewater canoeingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: KayakA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
Noun An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
Noun Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.
Verb To ride or paddle a canoe.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Fire in the Virgin Forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota
The influence of positive affect on acceptable level of risk: The person with a large canoe has a large worry
The Drosophila afadin homologue Canoe regulates linkage of the actin cytoskeleton to adherens junctions during apical constriction
Low-dose combination therapy with rosiglitazone and metformin to prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus (CANOE trial): a double-blind randomised controlled study
Calling a squirrel a squirrel but a canoe a wigwam: a category-specific deficit for artefactual objects and body parts
A contractile actomyosin network linked to adherens junctions by Canoe/afadin helps drive convergent extension
Identification of AF-6 and Canoe as Putative Targets for Ras
Landscape Ecology and Nature Reserve Design in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota
🆕 Influential since 2022
Ocean biogeochemistry in the Canadian Earth System Model version 5.0.3: CanESM5 and CanESM5-CanOE
Rap1 regulates apical contractility to allow embryonic morphogenesis without tissue disruption and acts in part via Canoe-independent mechanisms
Chiral Canoe‐Like Pd 0 or Pt 0 Alloyed Copper Alkynyl Nanoclusters Display Near‐Infrared Luminescence
Paleolithic seafaring in East Asia: An experimental test of the dugout canoe hypothesis
Estimated energetic demands of thermoregulation during ancient canoe passages from Tahiti to Hawaii and New Zealand, a simulation analysis
📚 Books worth reading
Canoeing in the wildernessHenry David Thoreau · 1916
Houghton Mifflin Reading Leveled ReadersHoughton Mifflin Company Staff · 2002
Voyage of the paper canoeN. H. Bishop · 1878
DeliveranceJames Dickey · 1970
Red Fox and His CanoeNathaniel Benchley · 1964
The river at Green KnoweLucy M. Boston · 1959
Minnow on the SayPhilippa Pearce · 1955
Paddle-to-the-SeaHolling Clancy Holling · 1941
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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