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In the frozen Canadian wilderness, love gives people something to protect—and loyalty has a cost.
The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum brings adventure and romance into a land shaped by snow, ice and long distances. Here, the wilderness is never merely scenery. Cold and isolation limit every choice, while survival depends on the bonds between people who need one another for warmth, food and safety.
Cullum places love and loyalty under the pressure of hardship. Affection offers a reason to keep fighting, but it also invites risk, rivalry and pain. His direct, vigorous storytelling keeps danger close and the landscape vivid, drawing you into a frontier world where caring for someone can make a hard choice harder.
What you’ll discover
- A wilderness that shapes lives Feel how snow, silence and distance shape what people can do and must give up.
- Loyalty under real pressure Explore bonds that matter most when people depend on each other for survival.
- Love amid the danger Discover how affection gives people strength while exposing them to risk and pain.
- The pull of frontier romance Enter a harsh northern setting where emotional struggles share the stage with physical danger.
- Vigorous storytelling and vivid places Follow direct, energetic prose that brings the cold landscape and its hard choices close.
Who will love it
Readers who love Arctic survival, dog sleds and blizzards will find plenty here. So will anyone who enjoys a romance, a family mystery, or a tale of friendship between a white officer and his Indian companions.
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- A tall tale and a two-year order
- A hidden fort and a lonely boy
- Winter among the Sleepers
- A rescue, a letter and a vow
- Fourteen years of searching
- Keeko at Fort Duggan
- A moose, a girl and a promise
- Winter, a volcano and a field of white
- A warning, a race and a deadly harvest
Who’s who
- Steve AllenwoodA steady police inspector who crosses the Arctic on duty, then spends fourteen years raising a lost boy and chasing a secret drug.
- Marcel BrandA fair-haired boy found alone at a trading post, who grows into a strong hunter and longs to share the big fight.
- An-inaMarcel's Indian nurse, who gives her whole heart to the boy and to Steve and fears nothing for herself.
- KeekoA brave young trapper who hunts furs with three Indians and plans to break free of her harsh stepfather after her mother dies.
- NitaSteve's young wife, who longs for dances and city life and finds the lonely North too hard to bear.
- Hervey GarstaingThe handsome, hated Indian Agent of the Allowa Reserve, who wants what other men have and takes it.
- Lorson HarrisThe smiling, ruthless head of the Seal Bay Trading Corporation, who will pay anything to own the secret trade in Adresol.
- David NicolA cruel trader sent by Harris to run Fort Duggan, who drinks, bullies the Indians and dreams of a hundred thousand dollars.
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Il cuore di Unaga
by Ridgwell Cullum · 1920
A police inspector tracks two murdered traders into the Arctic and finds a lost boy, a sleeping people and a volcano.
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The Heart of Unaga is an adventure novel by Ridgwell Cullum, a writer who set many of his tales in the Canadian North. It follows Inspector Steve Allenwood, a lone police officer who is ordered to travel a thousand miles into an unmapped Arctic country to look into the murder of two traders.
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A tall tale and a two-year order
The book opens at a police camp on the Allowa Indian Reserve, beside the Caribou River. Inspector Steve Allenwood sits at a fire with two scouts, Julyman and Oolak. Julyman insists that the Indians of the far north sleep through the whole winter, waking only to eat and drink a spirit brew before they sleep again. Steve smiles and does not believe a word, though the story will matter far more than he knows.
Steve has a young wife, Nita, and a baby daughter named Coqueline. That same night Nita comes home from a dance in the township of Deadwater, wrapped in a buffalo robe beside Hervey Garstaing, the Indian Agent whom every Indian hates. Julyman notices how close they sit and guesses what troubles his chief. A corporal then rides in with an order that Steve must place himself at the Agent's disposal.
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What is The Heart of Unaga about?
It follows a police inspector sent to the Arctic to investigate two murdered traders. He finds a boy, a people who hibernate, a rare drug called Adresol, and a volcano, and spends years protecting the boy and chasing the secret.
What is Adresol in The Heart of Unaga?
Adresol is a rare drug made from a plant that lets the Sleeper Indians hibernate each winter. It is deadly when the plant is green and harmless when dried and treated, which makes it valuable to medicine and to greedy traders.
Who are the Sleeper Indians?
They are a half-Eskimo people of the Unaga plateau who sleep through the winter in hidden huts, waking only to eat and drink a brew of the drug. Their source of the plant is a closely guarded secret.
The author
Ridgwell Cullum
1867–1943 · British adventure novelist
Ridgwell Cullum was a British writer born in London in 1867. He wrote novels about frontier life in North America. His books included The Watchers of the Plains, published in 1906, and The Heart of Unaga, published in 1920. He died in Worthing, England, in 1943.
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