Noel B. Gerson

One day, near the turn of the Century, several survivors from an errant whaleboat staggered onto a bleak, icy shore in the very heart of the Eskimo world. Frozen, starved, very near to death, three of the men were rescued by Eskimo hunters. Avinga, crippled son of the chief and narrator of the...

CHAPTER 1The somber Swedish countryside tipped beneath the wings of the plane. There were endless spruce forests lighted at intervals by autumn-tinted birches, outcrops of rocks like bare bones, small, dark red houses that looked as if they had been dropped haphazardly into the forest.It was too...