Canoeing with the Cree: A 2,250-mile voyage from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay (Unabridged)
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4.7 • 14 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
In 1930, two novice paddlers - Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port - launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe from 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 advice, the ragged, hungry adventurers arrived in York Factory on Hudson Bay - with winter freeze-up on their heels.
Customer Reviews
This is wonderful.
I had already read the book but certainly was looking forward to listening to it. It is a beautiful story of a world and time long gone, at least the rural US farmland that the two boys paddled through in the beginning. The narrator might have been trying too hard to sound like what he thought a care free teenager of the '30s may have sounded like, but the story itself is so strong, it really didn't matter.
It truly was an amazing journey, well told in this book. I am sure I will listen to it again.
Top rated adventure book!
One of my all-time favorite adventure books (and my husband's favorite). We both liked the reader.
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