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From Karl Iagnemma, receiver of the Paris Review Plimpton Reward, comes an intense and beautiful tale of an estranged father and son’s improbable trip although the wilderness of nineteenth century America.The yr is 1844. Sixteen-year-old runaway Elisha Rock is in Detroit, a hardscrabble frontier-town on-the-edge of the civilized globe. A canny heir with all the instincts of a born naturalist, Elisha indicators onto a journey into Michigan’s great, unknown Upper Peninsula. The party is led by two charming adventurers: Silas Comb, a questionable property-grabbing ex-knight, and George Tiffin, a quixotic teacher eager to uncover evidence of his unorthodox ideas concerning the roots of man.On the event of the expedition’s starting, Elisha pens a sincere letter to his mom in Newell, Boston.