R. H. Shimer's first novel! Dr. (Volcano) Haney wrote in his journal, which he used as a notebook for his articles and winter lectures, "Squaw Point is one of the least interesting islands in Western Alaska. Outside of a successful freezing plant on the island it has little to recommend it for study. I couldn't have been dropped at a place less likely to produce material for wintertime. Naturally, I am grateful to Fish and Wildlife and I will be even more when they put down at Unimak.".Squaw Point might not, at first glance, have seemed to Dr. Haney to be a place of much interest.But, it was a poart of the world that interested Miro Tokin, on the Sea Bear. Miro worked in the same business that his Russian and Aleut ancestors had - fishing, hunting and trading.It interested Gusti Lundt, the your schoolteacher, who was so at home in that part of the world that it wouldn't have occurred to her to be afraid of any of the islands, but particularly not a familiar one like Squaw Point.However, no one had expected to find Preacher White, an evangelist, leaning up against the back wall of the cannery, with a fishing knife in his chest, murdered.Seal hunts, the fogs and wild storms of Alaska, the empty terrain, the fishing fleets, the handful of people who have learned to live the hard way in a demanding climate are skillfully and excitingly combined with a most unusual love story.
