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"The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay"--
List of contents
Foreword
Ann Bancroft
Prologue
From Palms to Pines
The Pack-Out
Flooded Upstream
Against the Wind
Meet Me at the Popcorn Stand
River Races and Role Models
Living the Dream, Downstream
Rapture Before the Border
At Home on the Big Lake
Don’t Wake the Beast
Waiting for the Wind
Escape from Gull Harbor
A Tale of Tiny Boats
Windbound to Norway House
York Boats and Dog Days
Into the Wild
Pancakes and Portages
Spring Break at Hell’s Gate
Knife Rapids
Polar Bear Paradise
Afterword
Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho
About the author
Natalie Warren is a Minneapolis-based author, scholar, and public speaker on environmental issues. A lifelong paddler and river lover, she canoed the length of the Mississippi River and won first place in the Yukon River Quest in the women’s voyageur division, paddling 450 miles in fifty-three hours. A contributing writer to outdoor publications, she has worked with Bancroft Arnesen Explore, St. Croix River Association, and River Management Society, and she started a nonprofit to present urban rivers as natural, dynamic classrooms for youth.
Ann Bancroft is one of the world’s preeminent polar explorers and an internationally recognized educator, speaker, and philanthropist. With Liv Arnesen, she is author of
No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica (Minnesota, 2019).
