Into the Heart of the CountryInto the Heart of the Country

"Set in 18th-century Churchill. Appearing only fleetingly in the historical record of the Hudson's Bay Company are the Native women who lived at the company's Prince of Wales Fort and served as "country wives" to the European traders - and whose survival was bound, for better or worse, to the fortunes of these men. Across more than two centuries, the mixed-blood woman Mary Norton, daughter of Governor Moses and personal favourite of explorer Samuel Hearne, speaks to us from her dreams."--Publisher.