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The Heart of Unaga

First published: 1920
Pages: 373

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About this book

Ridgwell Cullum sets this 1920 adventure in the Canadian sub-Arctic, on the barely mapped plateau country called Unaga. A letter in a woman's hand reaches Seal Bay on the Hudson coast: two traders, Marcel Brand and Cyrus Allshore, have been killed at their remote post. It says little else, and the messenger who carried it can add nothing. Mounted Police inspector Steve Allenwood is ordered north to find out what happened, a job that will take two years and separate him from his wife Nita and their infant daughter. Brand was a chemist, and the post ran a quiet trade of its own. What Allenwood finds there, including Brand's small son, opens into a longer story of endurance and buried purpose. Cold and distance are the real antagonists, and Cullum treats them as forces rather than scenery.

About the author

Ridgwell Cullum

Ridgwell Cullum was the pen name of Sidney Groves Burghard (1867-1943), a Londoner who left home at seventeen for the Transvaal gold rush and later turned up at the Yukon strike, with several years of cattle ranching in Montana and a spell in the US Army along the way.