Summary Of Canoeing With The Cree By Eric Sevareid

I read the book Canoeing With the Cree by Eric Sevareid. This book is about two young men named Eric Sevareid and Walter Port. These men were best friends in high school. They decided to seek an adventure that summer by doing something that has never been done before. This was the first time an all-water trip had ever been made from Minnesota to the North Atlantic Ocean. Their plan was to start in Minneapolis and go to York Factory at the Hudson Bay. They canoed up the Minnesota River and its tributary, the Little Minnesota River to Browns Valley, Minnesota, portaged to Lake Traverse and descended the Bois des Sioux River to the Red River of the North which led to Lake Winnipeg, then went down the Nelson River, Gods River, and Hayes River …show more content…
They brought several supplies with them and for food, they brought things like ham, bacon, tea, sugar, salt, rice, raisins, potatoes, beans, soups, and chocolate. Eric and Walt decided on a schedule. They would start every morning at 5 take an hour's rest at noon and keep paddling until 5 in the evening. That would give them about 10 hours of paddling each day. Little did they know that keeping that exact schedule would prove to be impossible. They also had to come up with a schedule for tanning their skin as they were out in the sun so many hours a day. For the first few weeks, their faces and bodies were blistered from the Sun.In addition to their skin being burned, they also started dealing with several mosquitoes during the day while they were canoeing and especially at night in the camp. Although the Hudson Bay is north of Minneapolis during the first six days they had to Pedal South to Mankato Minnesota which is 25 miles from the Iowa border. Hear the river bends to the west and to the north. When Eric and Walt arrived in Shakopee Minnesota they bought a copy of the Minneapolis Star. Their pictures were on the first page and a long story about the trip that they had planned. At that moment they realize that there was no turning back and that they were going to make the trip all the way. They meta fisherman near Shakopee who told them that the town was named for the terrible Shakopee which was a Sioux Indian who massacred many whites in 1862. The young men took pictures on their trip with their camera they wish they could have afforded a moving picture camera what a regular camera would have to do. Eric and Walt's made many stops on their trip, in the beginning, they would stop at many farms and hike up to the farm and ask for water. Many of the farmers would provide them with bread and eggs. Eric thought it would be a good idea to try turtle soup. There was a there was a turtle sleeping on the