In the middle of the night, October 1850, three British sailors searching for lost countrymen
are set upon the rugged shore on the far edge of the vast Russian Empire. Only two will return
from this cruel and harsh land called Alyaksa.
Edward Adams, a young Victorian-era doctor, was part of an expedition sent to Russian
Alaska in search of explorer John Franklin and his crew. As the mission's naturalist, Adams
filled...