I Heard the Owl Call My Name [Paperback]

Amid the grandeur of the remote Pacific Northwest stands Kingcome, a village so ancient that, according to Kwakiutl myth, it was founded by the two brothers left on earth after the great flood. The Native Americans who still live there call it Quee, a place of such incredible natural richness that hunting and fishing remain primary food sources.

But the old culture of totems and potlatch is being replaces by a new culture of prefab housing and alcoholism. Kingcome's younger generation is disenchanted and alienated from its heritage. And now, coming upriver is a young vicar, Mark Brian, on a journey of discovery that can teach him—and us—about life, death, and the transforming power of love."Rare and beautiful...you'll never be the same again."—Seattle Times

"It has an epic quality...entrancing."—New York Times Book Review

"Memorable.... A shining parable about the reconciliation of two cultures and two faiths."—Christian Science Monitor.Margaret Craven (1901–1980) was the author of the much-loved American classic I Heard the Owl Call My Name. She also wrote another novel,Walk Gently This Good Earth; an autobiography,Again Calls the Owl; and a short-story collection,The Home Front.ONE
 
He stood at the wheel, watching the current stream, and the bald eagles fishing for herring that waited until the boat was almost upon them to lift, to drop the instant it had passed. The tops of the islands were wreathed in cloud, the sides fell steeply, and the firs that covered them grew so precisely to the high tide line that now, at slack, the upcoast of British Columbia showed its bones in a straight selvage of wet, dark rock.
 
“There’s the sign of an old village,” said the Indian boy who was his deckhand.
 
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