Tappan Adney is acknowledged as the foremost canoe scholar of all time. Now the rest of his extraordinary life is told in this superb and comprehensive biography. It details his remarkable accomplishments in a wide range of pursuits: canoe building, art, ornithology, heraldry, and the study of Indigenous culture and language. -- John Jennings, author of Bark Canoes: The Art and Obsession of Tappan Adney Tappan Adney was a frequent visitor to our home on the reserve. He came to talk with my father, Peter Paul, and learn our language. Here is the Tappan Adney we did not know as children he was no ordinary man and what he accomplished throughout the years with Indigenous people was amazing. -- Carole Polchies, Wlastkwi Elder A superbly humanizing portrait of a famous New Brunswicker that took me well beyond where I expected to go as a reader from the nineteenth-century apple wars to the Yukon River, tense family dynamics, and the halls of toxic academia. At the core of this biography is the transformative education that Adney received from Wlastkokewiyik and the profound effects of that education on his life and work. We can learn a great deal from his successes and his failures. * Rachel Bryant, author of The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic * Tappan Adney and the canoe are New Brunswick icons. Here, we see Adney as a Renaissance man able to move between worlds, from New York City to the settlements of Indigenous people, whose culture and rights he championed. The authors ensure he will not be forgotten. * Mark Bourrie, author of Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia * Im delighted to hear that the Adney biography is reaching publication, news that is as promising and welcome as it is overdue. * John McPhee, author of The Survival of the Bark Canoe, quoted with permission from correspondence with Keith Helmuth *
