Book description
In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old
certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an
unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his
faith. Travelling across the Eastern Steppes of Mongolia in the company
of a Buddhist monk and a local horseman, Joseph's journey is fraught
with danger, both physical and spiritual. But it is Namuunaa, the gifted
shaman woman who saves his life, who offers a greater challenge: she
will teach him what it is to love. A story of East meeting West and of a
love that transcends culture, faith and, ultimately, tragedy, this is
both a novel on an epic scale and an astonishingly intimate story.
