Into the heart of the country
Canadian fiction, Indigenous peoples fiction, Indigenous peoples in Canada fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Eighteenth-century Canada. The Native women who lived at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Prince of Wales Fort, serving as companions to the European traders, had their survival bound to the fortunes of those men. Across more than two centuries, the mixed-blood… woman Molly Norton, wife of the explorer Samuel Hearne, speaks to us from her dreams. As the story of her liaison with Hearne unfolds, we move toward its tragic consequences. 2011.