Two Summers in Guyenne

“There are rocks, and rocks, and rocks,” warns the village cobbler. Edward Harrison Barker thanks him—and turns down the stony path toward the Upper Dordogne, where the road soon vanishes and adders rustle in the bracken.

In a late-nineteenth-century summer, Barker follows the river from the volcanic heights of Auvergne into a gorge of sheer basalt, dense forest and sudden green meadows. The locals know the ravines are all but impassable, and the cobbler predicts Barker will be lost—or devoured. But the river’s winding course draws him on, even as the path breaks into rock and scrub, the heat beats down, and village or shelter lies far away. Can he find a way through the wild gorge before nightfall?

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