"The year was 1874. Nathaniel Holmes Bishop, a 37-year old explorer and adventurer, slid his canoe into the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec City. He would travel through Quebec, along the east coast of the United States, and across Florida to the Gulf of Mexico ... Bishop later published an account of his adventure, Voyage of the Paper Canoe: a geographical journey of 2500 miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico during the years 1874-1875 ... This...