In the mid eighteenth century, when the outside world intrudes on the peace-loving Aleut, Alidaq, he is cruelly jarred from the island life he has always known, and thrust into a strange new reality. To survive this new world that has been imposed on him and his people, he has to change the traditions and thinking thousands of years old. Harold, on the other hand, voluntarily changes his life when he leaves home in Chicago and heads for the late nineteenth...