Canoeing with the Cree: 75th Anniversary Edition

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Description

In 1930 two novice paddlers—Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port—launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without advantage of radio, motor, or excellent maps, the teens made their far more than 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Just about four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly bad conditions or even worse advice, the ragged, hungry adventurers arrived in York Factory on Hudson Bay—with winter freeze-up on their heels. First published in 1935, Canoeing with the Cree is Sevareid’s classic account of this youthful odyssey.

Praise for Canoeing with the Cree

“Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine.” —Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer and co-creator of No Horizon Is So Far

“Two highschool graduates make an important journey . . . showing indomitable courage that carried them through to their destination. Humor and a spirit of adventure made a grand, excellent time of it, regardless of storms, rapids, long portages and silent wildernesses.” —Library Journal

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