Sick Heart River
by John Buchan
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 1941
ISBN/ASIN: 0755117174
Number of pages: 318
Description:
Lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live. Fearing he will die unfulfilled, he devotes his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker. Galliard is in remotest Canada searching for the River of the Sick Heart. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen finds the banker. Leithen's health returns, but only one of the men will return to civilization.
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