Carnac's Folly

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Ivan Shishkin and George Catlin. A Quebec lumber town, an election, a father and son on opposite sides of it, and a marriage the son cannot admit to. Parker was Canadian-born, settled in England, sat in Parliament for eighteen years and was knighted; he knew both the timber country and the committee rooms, and the politics here are...