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My favorite book: The Starship And The Canoe (1978) by Kenneth Brower — a dual biography of renowned astro-physicist Freeman Dyson and his son, George, who lived then in an illegal tree-house 95 feet above Burrard Inlet, Vancouver and built large baidarkas (kayaks) he paddled to Alaska.

Central to Brower’s and George Dyson’s story: he Mount Fairweather, a 48-foot, six-person baidarka possibly the largest of its type ever conceived, built by Dyson in Vancouver when he was just 21 years old.

George Dyson and his crew aboard the Mount Fairweather, a 48-foot, six-person baidarka, the largest of its type ever built.
The Mount Fairweather, a 48-foot, six-person baidarka, under sail off Vancouver.
Inside the beatiful faux-skin, timber and alloy hull of the Mount Fairweather baidarka, built by George Dyson.
4 Jul 2022 at 15:34 | Open on merveilles.town
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wrack

Son of physicist Freeman Dyson, George dropped out of high school to moved to the Pacific Northwest. Now 68, George Dyson still builds kayaks but he's also a respected science historian (Turing's Cathedral, 2012, and Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines, 2020)

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4 Jul 2022 at 15:37 | Open on merveilles.town
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