Paul Prescot's desire to catalogue and comprehend the aboriginal rock paintings of the Canadian Shield is told through the eyes of the woman he loves. Her journeys with her husband, and then alone, returning to the north shore of Lake Superior to commend his ashes to the water, draw her deeper into a history that seems to offer a meaningful alternative to a world that has gone wrong. Peter Unwin maps the exhilarating and ultimately tragic consequences of one man's commitment to the land of his birth, a land whose deep and unwritten past is outside the reach of his understanding.
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