This book is the story of two high school grads that set out from their Minneapolis home bound for York Factory on Hudson Bay. Their glaring lack of experience and quality equipment was surprising. Regardless, they somehow procured parental permission and nominal funding from a local newspaper and set out for the Bay. Sevareid was 17 when he did this trip, and his partner Walt Port was 19. Sevareid wrote this book a few years after their trip, when we was 23. The book itself is a very quick, straight-forward read, and not unlike a long trip report that you might read right here on QJ.

I'd rate this one: 4.0/5.0

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