Title: Icefields
First published: 1995
Description: Leaving England for Canada in 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne has no idea that the glacier he has set out to study will come to absorb his every thought. When he arrives in Jasper, he finds himself attracted to then mysterious presence of the big white chunk. His religious appreciation of its movement keeps him in town much longer than anticipated, living out a symbiotic relationship with a block of ice.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Accidents, Glaciers, Adventure and adventurers, Fiction, general
Places: Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR9199.3.W4277 I28 1995