The Gaunt Gray Wolf: A Tale of Adventure with Ungava Bob

The wilds of Labrador call to young Shad Trowbridge, and he answers with everything he has. Arriving at Fort Pelican after a grueling journey aboard a Labrador mail boat, Shad finds himself surrounded by trappers and guides whose talk turns constantly to one name: Ungava Bob. The legendary young trapper has recently become famous for rescuing his sister from the wilderness and salvaging a sunken ship, and Shad wants him for his guide. What follows is a summer-long canoe trip into the untamed interior, where Shad learns what it means to test himself against nature at its most raw and unforgiving. The gaunt gray wolf of the title becomes a symbol of the wild itself: beautiful, dangerous, and utterly indifferent to human ambition. Wallace writes with the confidence of a man who knows these rivers and forests intimately, and his prose captures the particular loneliness and exhilaration of wilderness exploration. This is adventure fiction in its purest form, for readers who want to feel the pull of the far north and the satisfaction of a journey earned through hardship.