Books
Garrett’s first book, Beyond the Paddle, was released in 1991. This guide to the skills of poling, lining, portaging, and ice maneuvering is praised as the first and only of its kind to provide clear, precise, and detailed explanations of these techniques used by wilderness canoeists.
A Snow Walker's Companion was written with Alexandra in 1995 and quickly became an authoritative text on winter travel. The book was reprinted in 2001 as the The Winter Wilderness Companion, and in 2005 A Snow Walker's Companion: Winter Camping Skills for the North was republished to include an insert about Garrett and Alexandra's epic 350 mile snowshoe trip across the Ungava Peninsula, Quebec.
In 2006 Garrett published his first novel, Kristin's Wilderness: A Braided Trail. This story of a girl growing up among wilderness researchers earned several prestigious awards, including the Lupine Award of the Maine Library Association, the Independent Publishers Association’s National Bronze Medal, the Midwest Independent Publishers Association Top Honor, and the Bronze Medal in the Young Adult category of The Moonbeam Awards.
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