Canoeing with the Cree By Eric Sevareid. Before his distinguished broadcast journalism career, Sevareid and a friend, then in their late teens, launched an 18 foot canvas canoe in the Minnesota River near Minneapolis to begin a long journey to Hudson Bay. The newspaper stories written along the way formed the basis for this book and helped Sevareid get his first journalism job at the Minneapolis Journal. Follow along as the two make their way, without good maps, by rivers, lakes and sixty portages over 2,250 miles to arrive just before winter freeze-up at York Factory on Hudson Bay, fourteen weeks later. 206 pages, pb. E2819 G4625