Set in the early nineteenth century, Lost Nation is about a man known only as blood. A man of learning and wisdom with a secret past that has scorched his soul, blood remakes himself as a trader, hauling with him sally, ...Set in the early nineteenth century, Lost Nation is about a man known only as blood. A man of learning and wisdom with a secret past that has scorched his soul, blood remakes himself as a trader, hauling with him sally, a sixteen-year-old girl won from the madam of a brothel over a game of cards.