Canoeing with the Cree [sound recording] / Eric Sevareid.

Title:

ISBN:

9780981749105

Personal Author:

Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

St. Paul, MN : Holton House Audio, [2008]

℗2008

Physical Description:

4 sound discs (3 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

"The adventure classic-- 2,250 miles by canoe - from Minnesota to Hudson Bay"--Container.

Originally published as a book in 1968.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

In the summer of 1930, just out of high school, Eric Sevareid and Walter Port decided to do something that had never been done, canoe 2,250 miles from Minnesota to Hudson Bay. This is the amazing story.

Personal Subject:

Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992-Travel.

Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992-Childhood and youth.

Geographic Term:

Minnesota River (S.D. and Minn.)

Mnísota Wakpá.

Red River of the North

Winnipeg, Lake (Man.)

Subject Term:

Canoes and canoeing

Canoes and canoeing--North America.

Cree Indians