Excerpt: Lone Moose snaked its way through levels of woodland and open stretches of meadow, looping sinuously as a sluggish python?a python that rested its mouth upon the shore of Lake Athabasca while its tail was lost in a great area of spruce forest and poplar groves, of reedy sloughs and hushed lakes far northward. The waterways of the North are its highways. There are no others. No wheeled veh...