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.

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 would never end, and, in a sense, never does.

Superbly illustrated by noted wildlife photographer Jeff Foott, whose dramatic photographs of sockeye salmon on their journey home are appropriately sequenced throughout the book.