Canoeing with the Cree 75th Anniversary Edition

Name: Canoeing with the Cree 75th Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780873515337

ISBN-10: 0873515331

ISBN-13: 9780873515337

Edition: 75th 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Eric Sevareid, Ann Bancroft

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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…

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List price: $16.95
Edition: 75th
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




We're Off!



The New Life



Snakes!



Tragedy-Almost



Red River Mud



Ready for the Plunge



Into the Land of the Cree



The Royal Northwest Mounted



Humiliation of the "Sans Souci"



"The Die Is Cast"



Canoeing with the Cree



God's Country



The Great Test



Victory-and Pineapple



Half-breeds and Muskeg



End of the Trail


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