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Canoeing with the Cree
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by Eric Sevareid and Ann Bancroft
Sales Rank : 42283
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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Borealis Books; Revised edition April 15, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0873515331
ISBN-13: 978-0873515337
Product Dimensions:
7.5 x 5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Product Review
"Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine."--Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer
Product 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 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. Now with a new foreword by Arctic explorer, Ann Bancroft.
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