SEVAREID, ERIC
Canoeing with the Cree
St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Historical Society. 1973, Second Printing. (ISBN: 0873510380). Cloth, 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Hardcover, Originally Published in 1935. Former owner's stamped name/place on upper edge of ffep, usual age toning to the textblock, else clean and tight, mapped end papers, b&w photos; Minor bump to the head and foot of the spine. The dust jacket is in sad shape - heavily worn and chipped; Clear taped along the underside, at the foot of the spine and to the corners, soiled and very shelf worn. 206p. including index. "In the summer of 1930 two Minnesota teen-agers - Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port, paddled an eighteen-foot canoe from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. The journey covered 2,250 miles, required sixty portages, and lasted nearly four months..This is one of the few published accounts of a twentieth-century canoe journey over the waterways earlier made famous by fur traders." - from the jacket. Very Good+/Fair to Good (in mylar).
Boeknummer: SB16966
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75]
Trefwoorden: Canada, Canadiana, Red River of the North, Minnesota River, Bois De Sioux River, Lake Winnipeg, Playgreen Lake, Shamattawa, Gods River, Touchwood Lake, Gods Lake, Erhimamish River, Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Walter C. Port American History/Americana 0873510380