Descripción

After a harsh Northern Ontario winter, food is scarce and wolves must pursue the caribou north along the Winisk River. A large timber wolf fights off two young males and inserts himself into a pack led by a strong Alpha female. We follow the pack’s two-hundred-mile journey along the Winisk River to Hudson Bay and the Severn River, as they face the dangers of human hunters, near-starvation and treacherous rivers. Readers will experience the loyalty and affection of the wolf pack and be captivated by these powerful, intelligent, courageous creatures in their thrilling struggle to survive. Using bold, vivid free verse in this fiercely original literary tour de force, Paul Brown dares to explore the natural beauty of the Great North and the heart of its wildlife.

Paul Brown is a poet, a writer of fiction and a retired English teacher. He has made several canoe trips into Northern Ontario, and in 1988 made the same trip from Webequie to Peawanuck on the Winisk River that the wolf pack makes in his debut novel. Brown lives in Belleville, Ontario.

Artist and First Nation Band Councilor Robert Kakegamic continues the Woodland Aboriginal tradition started by Norval Morrisseau, his cousin the late Carl Ray, and brothers Joachim and Goyce Kakegamic. Robert, a lifelong resident of Sandy Lake, Ontario, a Swampy Cree (Ojibway) First Nation community, brings imaginative and symbolic imagery to his wildlife paintings.