THE LAND GOD GAVE TO CAIN

by Hammond Innes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 17, 1958

A literate and exciting adventure story gains much from its background- again an untamed, untouched territory, and concentrates on the stubborn search by young Ian Ferguson for a man given up for dead in the cold wilderness of Labrador. A radio report, picked up in England by Ian's father (a paralytic, speechless and motionless in a wheelchair, who had died in his attempt to pass it on) is discounted by all except Ian who goes to Labrador to contact the authorities there and try to revive the search. There the word of Laroche, the pilot who had survived after abandoning for dead the two men of a geological expedition- Briffe and Baird, is accepted and Laroche now tries to prevent Ferguson's continued efforts to prove his father's claim. Paule, Briffe's daughter, who is to marry Laroche, begins to believe with Ian- in Laroche's strange evasions and the possibility of her father's survival. All three finally make their way to the Lake of the Lion, and there is a final revelation which is also a reversal- of the brutal incident which had taken place there..... Essentially, exclusively, and by all means effectively- an adventure to which the love of Ian and Paule adds only a minimal amount of anti-freeze Hammond Innes' last book- The Wreck of the Mary Deare should have softened up and opened up the market.

Pub Date: Nov. 17, 1958

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1958

Categories: FICTION