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Icefields (Paperback)
$17.08 - Save $2.87 (14%) - RRP $19.95 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for IcefieldsSet amidst the beauty of the Canadian Rockies in 1897, this "stunning debut" (Joy Gugeler, Ottawa Citizen) records a world on the brink, and its people, who are trying to build a society in a land where nature's power rules supreme.
Full description- Publisher: Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
- Published: 01 October 1996
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780671002206 ISBN 10: 0671002201
- Sales rank: 396,763
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Full description for Icefields
At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse... Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm, fighting his desire to sleep. The ice in front of him is lit with a pale blue-green radiance. There, embedded in he pure, antediluvian glacier, Byrne sees something that will inextricably link him to the vast bed of ice, and the people who inhabit this strange corner of the world. In this moment, his life becomes a quest to uncover the mystery of the icefield that almost became his tomb. Within the deceptively simple framework of a tourist guidebook, "Icefields" takes a breathtaking, imaginative look at the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. Here is an impressive literary landscape, and an expedition unlike any you have ever experienced.
