"On May 26th 2008, beginning on Lake Superior, seven men embarked on an expedition by canoe to York Factory on Hudson Bay. Seventy-five days later, after paddling almost 1400 miles, negotiating one hundred rapids, and crossing eighty-five portages, two of those men completed the journey. Far Distant Echo is a story of adventure, survival, and willpower, of rising to a challenge and meeting it, and of man's endlessly complex relationship with nature. Told through the journals of the two men who made it to the end-- Fred Marks, an outdoorsman who took on guiding canoe trips as his 'retirement…
