from Canada include Coke Stop in Emo: Adventures of a Long-Distance Paddler by Alec Ross, Canoeing a Continent: On the Trail of Alexander MacKenzie by Max Finkelstein and Where Rivers Run by Joanie and Gary McGuffin. Sigurd Olson, conservationist and north woods writer, traveled and camped by canoe extensively. These included long trips as he wrote about in his book The Lonely Land and well as frequent shorter trips covered in many of his books. Eric W. Morse, author, historian and notable wilderness canoe tripper traveled with Sigurd Olson. He authored books on their wilderness trips and on historical fur trade canoe routes in Canada. In the "Source to Sea expedition" of 2005, two students from North Carolina State University paddled down the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers to support the Audubon Society's Upper Mississippi River Campaign. The book New York to Nome by Rick Steber details the story of Sheldon Taylor and Geoffrey Pope who paddled from New York City April 25, 1936, to Nome, Alaska, August 11, 1937. And from January 10, 1975 until November 12, 1977, Jerry Robert Pushcar canoed and portaged solo a distance of from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Nome, Alaska, via the Mississippi, Prescott, Minnesota, Grand Portage, Lake Superior, and Canada. This was the longest recorded canoe trip in history until 1980. The record was broken by Don Starkell and his sons Dana and Jeff, who paddled in an open canoe from Winnipeg in central Canada to Belém at the mouth of the Amazon River from June 1, 1980 to May 1, 1982, covering a distance of . Henry David Thoreau, an American author and advocate of environmental conservation, provided a written account of a long distance canoeing expedition in his book The Maine Woods. Thoreau's canoeing expedition in Maine covered remote areas that can still be experienced in Maine's Hundred Mile Wilderness. Popular destinations Australia The Yarra River, Victoria Murray River, Victoria & New South Wales Brisbane River, Queensland Canada Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario Bowron Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia Churchill River, Saskatchewan and Manitoba Dumoine River, Quebec (whitewater) Gatineau Park, Quebec George River, Nunavik, Quebec Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario Lakeland Provincial Park & Recreation Area, Alberta La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve, Quebec McLennan Lake, Saskatchewan Main Lake Canoe Route, Quadra Island, British Columbia Manigotagan River, Manitoba Missinaibi River, Ontario (whitewater) Moisie River, Quebec Nahanni River, North West Territories (whitewater)