Description: Fully researched and elegantly written, Ahmek follows a young beaver through his daily routine in the North American wilderness in 1917. As the story begins, Ahmek leads a simple and peaceful life with his family and the other animal characters who share his pond. We see through his eyes a Human and his easel, a man we know as Tom Thomson, sketching the surroundings. The painter and Ahmek establish a rapport that is shattered when the beaver dam is destroyed by poachers. When Ahmek flees, he becomes separated from his family, and must begin a new life in a strange territory. Later when he returns to his old environment, we learn that the Human lies, lifeless, under the water. Although unaware of the importance of the event, Ahmek has been a part of a significant mystery that to this day has not been solved.

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