Icefields
by Thomas Wharton
Category: Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)

"This is an uncommonly beautiful novel. Its final sentence 'I want to show you something rather extraordinary' might have been its first. Nearly every page gave me something new to marvel at an image, a gesture, a sudden insight into a character. Like the glacier that haunts its people (and the reader), this novel rears up a shining ice-cathedral of a story, lovely, mysterious, and awe-inspiring. By the end, I felt that one small, remarkable piece of Canada had been examined with such penetrating eyes that it had begun to glow with hints of universal truth." Jack Hodgins