![]() ![]() ![]() To fill her time, she begins a study of the new science of photography. His wife, Sophie, is a thoughtful Yankee spinster who is bored by the company of the frivolous, uneducated officer’s wives. He hopes that someday she may read it, whether he comes home or not. ![]() The Colonel keeps a private journal which he addresses to his pregnant wife, now left behind on the edge of civilization. Not even the Russians, who had ceded the vast territory in 1867, knew much about this immensity that they owned. A decorated war hero, Colonel Allen Forrester, leads a small expedition up the Wolverine River into the unknown. The main story is set in Alaska during the winter of 1885. This novel is an epistolary novel with four principal characters: one pair, husband and wife, live in 1885, and the other pair are contemporary. ![]()
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