Sometime last week I finished reading “Icefields” by Thomas Wharton. This was his debut novel, and was also the first book I read for the “2nd Canadian Book Challenge”.

From Amazon.Com, here is a rundown on the description:
This first novel begins with an imaginative and ingenious premise: a physician trekking across the Arcturus Glacier in the Canadian Rockies in 1898 slips and tumbles into a crevasse, where he beholds a winged human figure. The rest of the book tells of Dr. Edward Byrne’s efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery in the ice. Along the way, he encounters...
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