Outdoorsmen and armchair travelers will encounter history, ravenous insects, trail menus, hungry bears, and the quiet joys of endurance in this intriguing recounting of a 2008 canoe expedition. Six men began a 1,300-mile canoe trip along a traditional fur-trading route. During the two-and-a-half-month expedition, four of them dropped out. One of the two who saw it through (Marks) turned 62 on the trail, and the satisfaction of the authors at completing the trek is expressed in vibrant if understated language: "Both of our hearts were racing. We had made it." The highly detailed account of planning the trip underscores the atmosphere of authenticity, and problems encountered along the way ring true. This is no journal of transcendental rapture; the emphasis is on the incidental and, often, on mishaps. Moments of serendipity, too, are presented keenly. Publishers Weekly 07/09/2012

Describes the author's three month canoe adventure, which started at Duluth, Minnesota and ended at York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...river. Next morning with new guides and canoe we succeeded in making about eight miles along the shore, when we were compelled by the high seas to wade with our canoe and supplies to the shore some half mile in. Hannah Bay is so shallow that the receding tide uncovers nearly two miles of mud flats off shore. In fact it is difficult from shore to see the water when the tide is out. The falling tide is likely to strand one far from shore, and it is no pleasant job to get in to dry land, for after reaching shore there is still about two miles of muskeg swamp to cross before ground is reached sufficiently solid to camp on. Canoe was cached, packs resumed, and two days of weary muskeg packing brought us to Partridge Creeks, a ramifying network of small streams, too deep to cross, running through a barely passable swamp. Signaling by shots located another camp of goose hunters, who came after us in canoes and piloted us to their camp. Next morning goodbye was said to these guides and with two new ones we started again in canoes. On reaching the mouth of the creeks we found the long expected had happened--the tide flats were covered with broken ice and impassable to canoe. Mail from Home 107 Moose Factory At Last Again packing was resumed and night brought us to Moose Factory, whence our course left the Bay for the railway. The trip from Ruperts House to Moose Factory had been made in a week, with the aid of five sets of guides, three canoes, and sixty miles of packing. On the way over we met Mr. Nicolson en route from Moose to Ruperts House with canoe and full crew. He had already been out nine days and wrote later that five days more were used on the trip. It was a satisfaction to us to know that our unusual efforts in packing had saved nearly...

First published in 1935, "Canoeing with the Cree" is Sevareid's classic account of a youthful odyssey--a summer-long canoe trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Includes a new Foreword by Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft.

Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half is a true river with strong current, but the lower half is tidal, a sunken river from the days of glaciers. In its first 165 miles, it drops more than 4,000 feet to Albany. The second half falls no more than a foot. Lourie's account of his trip is a fresh look at one of America's great and complex waterways, one of the few, in fact, that still contains its his­torical and biological species of fish. It is also the longest inland estuary in the world. Henry Hudson called it the "great river of the moun­tains." Nowadays, too often the Hudson is stereotyped as a ruined, polluted industrial river. Its glorious past is compared to its present neglect. In River of Mountains, Peter Lourie combines the Hudson's rich history and descriptions of some of the region's most impressive landscape with the residents of its mill towns, the loggers, commercial fishermen, and barge pilots-all of whom are proof that the river is still a thriving, vital waterway. So, come with Peter Lourie on his trip, come explore with him from a canoe one of this coun­try's great rivers, join him in his wonderful adventure.

Details the adventure of two men who canoed 1700 miles from Duluth, Minnesota to the shores of Hudson Bay and discusses their battle with mosquitoes, their struggle with a tent that doesn't stay up in the wind, and their diet of macaroni and cheese for countless breakfasts