"Thinking outside the gunnels": Considering natures and the moral terrains of recreational canoe travel

Leisure/ Loisir

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-69

  Grimwood, Bryan S R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canoeing; Ethics; Geography; Nature; Relational thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951703552     PISSN: 14927713     EISSN: 21512221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2011.549196     Document Type: Article

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