Set again in the alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage t...Set again in the alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret. Colonel allen forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to Navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable wolverine river, with only a small group of men.