The Blurb:

A Discovery of Strangers is a story - based on true events - of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin''s small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first Expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encountered the Yellowknife Indians - and Greenstockings, fifteen-year-old daughter of Keskarrah, elder of the Yellowknife, met young Robert Hood, son of a Lancashire clergyman.

The book was interesting, but very hard to get into. I think I've tried several times over the years, but finally persisted. It is, of course, somewhat of a tragedy - the only positive I suppose is that the north was finally mapped, but at a ridiculous cost to everybody involved.

Left on a counter.