[nice solid copy, some dust-soiling to top edge but otherwise just minimal shelfwear, faint bookstore stamp at bottom of front pastedown; jacket has a couple of small chips along top edge, a few small tears, soiling to rear panel]. The author's first novel, set in Labrador, where (per the jacket copy) she had spent a couple of miserable winters. "This is Alec Hardy's story. Part Welsh, part Indian, he clings to his wilderness life and trapper and fisherman. The call of the land is in his blood. He is deeply suspicious of an Empire-at-war. Yet his love for Flora [and] his brother's enlistment both make him feel the pull of far horizons."