The Lake of the Beginning: A Fable of Salmon, Northern Lights, and an Old Promise Kept

by Ed Gray

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572230851
• ISBN13: 9781572230859
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Willow Creek Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

One of the greatest works of all time!

I found this book by accident in my school library, and up till now, i have been borrowing it to read. This story describes all about the life of the Sockeye Salmon, told by a Qualik man, on how they tried very hard to return to the old ocean when it was being divided. They spent many years to get to the old ocean, but there was a waterfall obstructing their path. On the other hand, a mother and 2 children came to this part of Alaska to throw their grandmother's ashes into the river in which the Sockeye salmon came to breed. They met the Qualik man, and he began to tell the tale of the Sockeye Salmon. Both parts of the stories meet at the near end of the story, to form a very touching ending. First-time readers may find it very difficult to comprehend the whole story, but with patient reading and analysing, you will realise that this story is a one-of-a-time classic. A beautiful story written by Ed Gray, and i recommend it to all readers. Thumbs up for Lake of the Beginning!