Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum kitchenware camaraderie

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and artisans long known and highly respected in both Native and non-Native venues

in many ways the Sky World dominates legend and life

Kenkéknem’s curiosity and hunger soon get them both into trouble

Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum kitchenware camaraderieAnticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England,