Canoeing with the Cree
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1968
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 208 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780873511520
- Publisher:
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/08/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Eric Sevareid
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- John Immarino
- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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