The Lake of the Beginning: A Fable of Salmon, Northern Lights and An Old Promise Kept

The Lake of the Beginning is a timeless and beautiful fable about nothing less than storytelling itself. The tale interweaves the natural history of sockeye salmon returning upstream to their home lake, tribal tales of an ancient Inuit man, and a young college professor who has brought her two children to Alaska to spread their grandmother's ashes on the mystic lake. As the spawning salmon draw nearer the lake of their beginning and the old man's story approaches its conclusion, layers of mystery peel away as startling new chapters unfold for each of the characters. In a moving conclusion, the bond that has brought them all together at the same moment reveals itself under a radiant blaze of northern lights, creating yet another story. With beginnings and endings, truth and meaning, science and magic, and a promise honored, The Lake of the Beginning is a story you'd wish will never end, and, in a sense, never does. The compelling story is superbly illustrated ! by noted wildlife photographer Jeff Foott, whose dramatic photographs of sockeye salmon on their journey home are appropriately sequenced throughout the book.