Edwin Tappan Adney was an artist, a writer, a
photographer and the man credited with saving the art of birch bark
canoe construction. He built more than one hundred models of
different types, which are now housed at the Mariners' Museum in
Newport News, Virginia. He is the author of The Klondike Stampede,
a book, illustrated with his own photographs, about his experiences
in the Yukon during the Gold Rush. He lived in Athens, Ohio.
Howard Chapelle was a curator of maritime history at the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. He authored many books and
articles on maritime history and marine architecture.
John McPhee is an American writer, and considered by many as
one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. Winner of the Pulitzer
Prize in General Nonfiction for his collection Annals of the Former
World, he is the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton
University, where he currently resides.
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