The Little Kayak Book Book series Contents

MUSEUM KAYAKS FIVE SURVEYS WITH SOME DETAILS OF EQUIPMENT; HISTORY OF EACH AS FAR AS IT KNOWN

1. Trinity House, Hull, England, - the oldest known kayak with an unusual history.
2. Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, - a small kayak with ivory ornamentation.
3. Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, - the kayak labelled "Nord Alaska".
4. University Museum, Cambridge, England, - a 1930s kayak from Clyde Inlet, Baffin Island.
5. British Museum, London, England, - a restored C. 19th Aleutian kayak.

NB The cover of LKB1 is white (not light blue as it appears to be in the picture)

(II) PART II of THE LITTLE KAYAK BOOK by JOHN BRAND

SIX SURVEYS OF MUSEUM KAYAKS WITH SOME DETAILS OF EQUIPMENT AND THE HISTORY OF EACH AS FAR AS IT IS KNOWN

6. British Museum, ex. No. 146 Bethnal Green Museum, W. Greenland.
7. British Museum, 1900.4-11, Caribou Eskimo.
8. British Museum, N/N, Alaskan.
9. Cambridge University Museum, Z. 15360, W. Greenland.
10. Danish National Museum, Pb.1, Labrador.
11. Danish National Museum, P.33 10b, Nunivak Is.

Plus

(i). "A Feathered Greenland Paddle"
(ii). "An Introduction to Kayak Surveying"

(III) PART III OF THE LITTLE KAYAK BOOK by JOHN BRAND

TEN SURVEYS OF MUSEUM KAYAKS WITH SOME DETAILS OF EQUIPMENT

12. Town Hall, Braintree, Essex, England, - Q. Riley's E. Greenland BAARE Kayak, 1920s?
13. British Museum, London, England, - "old" West Greenland kayak, c.1850?
14. Royal Geographical Society, London, England, - Gino Watkins's 2nd kayak, probably 1931.
15. British Museum, London, England, - the ex-Cambridge expedition kayak, 1962.
16. Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England, - the smallest East Greenland BAARE kayak, 1931.
17. Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England, - W. E. Hampton's East Greenland BAARE kayak, 1931.
18. Lancing College, Lancing, Sussex, England, - Gino Watkins's famous white kayak, 1930 or 1931.
19. Atlantic College, Llantwit Major, South Wales, - F. Spencer Chapman's 3rd kayak, 1932.
20. National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, - East Greenland kayak "No. 3"
21. National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, - East Greenland kayak collected by Knut Rasmussen

Plus "The Story of the Sixteenth Caribou"

Appendices

A. Kayak surveying, additional notes
B. The Two Air Routes Expeditions mainly letters
C. Kayak Conservation, letters from museums
D. Four kayak models, notes and sketches

(IV) THE LITTLE KAYAK BOOK SERIES by JOHN BRAND

THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF KAYAKS

The complete notes for a lecture given at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, England, 2nd March 1986 with later appendices intended for other lectures (reduced edition April 1987)

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