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Canoeing with the Cree Collector's Edition
Canoeing with the Cree Collector's Edition Author:Eric Severeid In 1930 two novice paddlers?Eric Sevareid�and Walter C. Port?launched a secondhand eighteen-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota�River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious�summer-long journey from Minneapolis to�Hudson Bay. First published in 1935, Canoeing�with the Cree is Sevareid?s classic account�of this youthful odyssey to a vast and remote�la... more »nd, that has inspired generations of�canoeists,�wilderness enthusiasts and armchair�adventurers.
In our era of GPS, cell phones, power�bars, and bug spray, the young men?s account�is all the more remarkable and nostalgic. Relive�their quintessential adventure with this limited-edition book and map set. It includes a newly�designed book, a handsome multipurpose�collector?s tin, and a colorful art quality�map annotated by Ann Raiho, who with Natalie�Warren were the first women to replicate Sevareid�and Port?s route.
Just in time for the holidays, this limited-edition classic is the perfect gift for nature�lovers and outdoor adventurers.
The newspaper stories that Eric 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.« less