Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier

xvi, 404pp. In green cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on the spine (boards are strong, square and clean). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (tiny indentation on top edge of rear inner flap). "A journey into the complicated environment of the North American interior in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Written with clarity and energy, this book tells its story through the remarkable device of a triple biography."