Canoeing with the Cree - Softcover

Severeid, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873511522 ISBN 13: 9780873511520

Publisher: Borealis Books, 1968

Synopsis

"Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine."--Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer "Imagination and determination are the stuff of this book." --The Beaver 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 benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly bad conditions and 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. The newspaper stories that Sevareid wrote on this trip launched his distinguished journalism career, which included more than a decade as a television correspondent and commentator on the CBS Evening News.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Sevareid

Review:

"Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine."--Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer

About this edition

• Publisher: Borealis Books
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0873511522
• ISBN 13: 9780873511520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206