Honor of the Big Snows

A young man carrying an unfathomable sorrow arrives at a remote northern outpost, and his arrival will alter the lives of everyone he meets. Jan Thoreau emerges from the trackless barrens with nothing but a violin and a grief that has carved itself into his bones. At the camp of Lac Bain, where the snow falls in endless curtains, he brings music to hardened men, and then to a dying woman whose final days become intertwined with his own haunting secret. What drove him from civilization? What is the honor of the big snows that he must ultimately confront? Curwood weaves a tale of wilderness, redemption, and the redemptive power of beauty in a land where survival is the only certainty.