Steamboat Slough — John A. Schettler

About Steamboat Slough There was something under the ice at Steamboat Slough, something lost, buried in the frozen wreckage where the children feared to play. For Daniel Edwards, returning to the old mission site near the Yukon where he taught school a decade past, the wreck of an old steamboat becomes more than a tale told by the village elders. In a mystery weaving the shifting imagery of a dream with modern psychology and ancient myth, Daniel struggles to solve the riddle of the old wreck and free himself from the haunting embrace of a nightmare older than history itself. Based on a real story, time, and place where the author once served as a volunteer teacher in an Eskimo village, Steamboat Slough has a universal almost archetypal quality about it, a strange alchemy of science, soul and mythology.