![]() ![]() The lake, it seems, holds a huge water snake monster that makes it impossible to reap the waters’ bountiful harvest of fish and game. A ‘deepseer’ or shaman, he must use his full powers first to comprehend the threats and then to defeat them. In this third novel of his trilogy about the ‘people of the dawnland,’ the lake they call Petonbowk ‘ The Waters Between‘ Vermont’s Green Mountains and New York’s Adirondacks holds both sustenance and danger, and Young Hunter, the ‘young, broad shouldered man whose heart was good for all the people,’ is called upon to confront a dual menace. ![]() Joseph Bruchac, a nationally renowned storyteller and writer of Native American tales, uses this setting not just to spin a compelling adventure yarn but also to re create with grace, fullness, and clarity the cultural, social, and spiritual systems of these pre contact Native Americans. The time is ten thousand years ago and the place is the shores of Lake Champlain, a land inhabited by Abenaki communities who hunt, gather, and follow the cycles of their unspoiled natural world in relative harmony.
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