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Angikuni: Lake of Sorrow

by Ellis M. Land

165 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-1169; ISBN 1-4251-3174-3; US$17.99, C$17.99, EUR12.29, £9.29

Burt Randall relates his emergence from tragedy to canoe an Arctic river. A plane crash results in a mother and daughter joining his desperate struggle for survival.

About the Book

Burt Randall recollects how a life of contentment came to an abrupt and tragic end one afternoon in 1965. He slowly emerges from protracted grieving over the loss of his family and decides to embark on a canoe journey from Kasba Lake in northern Manitoba, down the Kazan River to Baker Lake. Accompanied by his young nephew Tyler, Burt begins a trip he hopes will help him pick up the pieces of his shattered life. There is a sea-plane accident near their camp on Angikuni Lake, deep in the barren-lands, which engages them in a dangerous rescue, and leaves a mother and her young daughter in their care. The journey becomes a struggle as the party tries to reach the safety of the village on short rations in an overloaded canoe. Angikuni is an enthralling adventure tale, elegiac, at times joyful and sad, as nunatsiak (the beautiful land) casts a hypnotic spell.

About the Author

Ellis Martin Land was born near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1940 and had a rural upbringing. Following his education he began a career as a Conservation Officer in northern Saskatchewan and after two years there and thirteen years as a Game Management Officer in the Northwest Territories; he retired to a farm near Deadwood in the Peace River area of Alberta where he now resides.

He has published one Book: TUKTULEREE - The Man who looks After the Caribou (2001) and a collection of poetry: THE SUN BEHIND THE HILLS (2007).

Ellis M. Land and his wife Iris, have two children and six grandchildren.