Canoeing with the Cree: 75th Anniversary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0873515331 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Humor and a spirit of adventure made a grand, good time of it, in spite of storms, rapids, long portages and silent wildernesses." —Library Journal. 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. 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. 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.Praise for Canoeing with the Cree"Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine." —Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer and co-author of No Horizon Is So Far"Two high schoo
Canoeing 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, boredom, mud, rain, cold, gigantic waves on Lake Winnepeg and being lost in areas where there is no chance of being saved. There is no modern technology. They are often times very much alone against the elements that had n. Jay Runner said Sevareid has made it easy to be proud that you are one. 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 and Sevareid had read London? I'd bet they had.The call is to remove oneself from electrified and plumbed shelter, from safety and comfort, and to go long into the quiet wild. If that call has been previously heard, Canoeing. A simple, inspiring adventure David Haupt 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. Places like Norway House and York Factory still exist, but are now virtually abandoned. At the time of the story they were major outposts of civilization in what was then a primeval land. Sevareid's and Post's joy at encou
Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine. -----Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer