Canoeing with the Cree: 75th Anniversary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0873515331 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In 1930 two novice paddlers—Eric Sevareid and Walter C. 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. Port—launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River
"Canoeing Into the Past" according to Colin P. Conn. This is a true adventure story written by a great American icon. It was 19Canoeing Into the Past This is a true adventure story written by a great American icon. It was 1930 and in their late teens, Eric Sevareid and his good friend Walter Port, embark on an amazing canoe journey through much of Minnesota and a remote region of Canada. The story takes you back to an era when life was simple but abundant; to a time when the north woods was truly a brutal frontier and men were really men. They fight mosquitoes, flies. 0 and in their late teens, Eric Sevareid and his good friend Walter Port, embark on an amazing canoe journey through much of Minnesota and a remote region of Canada. The story takes you back to an era when life was simple but abundant; to a time when the north woods was truly a brutal frontier and men were really men. They fight mosquitoes, flies. "Sevareid has made it easy to be proud that you are one" according to Jay Runner. An earlier reviewer mentioned a certain call, a certain similarity, a formless link to a couple of Jack London's works in the genre of literary naturalism. Sevareid is instead writing of the actual, is essentially writing a narrative with few symbols and metaphors compared with London's inspiring fiction that also runs deep into the heart. The Call of the Wild and White Fang often came to my mind also. I wonder if Port . A simple, inspiring adventure My, how the world changes in 80 years! This is not a book with the profundity that Sevareid was later noted for. It is a straight off account of two boys setting out on an adventure more dangerous than they realized which could easily have cost them their lives. Fool-hardy, yes. But, how remarkable that they succeeded.The book gives insight to how primitive Northern Canada and the world was almost within my own lifetime
Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine. -----Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer