I remember Eric Sevareid as a journalist for CBS for many years. However, this book was written many years before his TV career began, in 1930, when he was only 17 years old. At that young age he and his best friend, 19 year old Walt, leave their home town of Minneapolis in a canvas canoe, with supplies they hope will last through a 2250 mile trip that will end at Hudson Bay on the Atlantic. As far as they knew, they were the first people to attempt this trip, with only their paddles and muscle to carry them along. They had to make as much speed as possible, with the freezing temps and frozen water of winter nipping at their back, before the rivers and streams they were navigating began their freeze; and they couldn't leave until the finish of their last year of high school and graduation. Eric wrote details of their trip for a newspaper in Minneapolis that were posted from various stops along the way, as well as keeping this journal which became a book. This book, with the details and travails of their journey, is a quick and easy read, and very enjoyable.