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).

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