Nathaniel Holmes Bishop (1837-1902) was an American adventurer and author. At age 17 he worked his way south from Massachusetts on a sailing ship, then hiked across South America. This is the subject of his first book, The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles" Walk Across South America (1869). By 1872 he had become a canoe enthusiast, along the lines of British canoeist John "Rob Roy" MacGregor. He ordered the 18-foot canoe Mayeta, and started on a two-man voyage from Quebec. The voyage was abandoned because the canoe was too heavy, and Bishop apparently didn"t like the company. He obtained Maria Theresa, a 58-pound paper canoe and started again. Bishop rigged his canoe with rowlocks; he did not use a double paddle, and he did not sail Maria Theresa much on his Florida cruise 1874- 5, which he wrote about in Voyage of the Paper Canoe (1878). His last book was Four Months in a Sneak Box (1879). After these three books, Bishop seems to have stopped writing except for correspondence...