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Polar Imperative is based on Shelagh Grant's groundbreaking archival research and draws on her reputation as a leading historian in the field

with each chapter titled after an iconic ’80s song

Francine d'Amour explores the parallel worlds of interior and exterior travel

Prize(s): Winner George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (2011)

Having worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts

Lightning Product Form:Hardback Polar Imperative is based onDescription The award winning Western epic by "one of Canada's greatest living writers" (David Adams Richards) Lightning takes up where Fred Stenson's Giller nominated and much honoured novel, The Trade, left off. It is 1881, and the fur trade has been forced to make room for another economy. Seven thousand cattle are crossing the border from Montana into newly named Alberta. The openrange ranch era, Canadian style, is about to begin. Doc Windham, a