The Lure Of The North

"The Lure of the North" by Harold Bindloss Harold Edward Bindloss was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in western Canada and some in West Africa and England. In this book, readers are whisked away to Canada, a beautiful but harsh place that called to many young men and women who were on the hunt for adventure. Jim Thirlwell is an engineer at a struggling silver mine in northern Ontario. When one of his coworkers drowns in a canoe accident, Thirlwell begins a correspondence with the deceased's daughter Agatha who coaxes him into an adventure.