The memory of the terrible night when raiding Indians killed his parents and carried off his sister filled the young Eskimo Kungo with a fierce thirst for revenge. It was to make good this gnawing obsession that Kungo determined to become a great archer.

And so it was that he made the hazardous journey to a distant island where Ittok lived—an old man who could draw a huge bow that younger men could not even bend and whose nearly blind eyes could still send an arrow straight to its mark. There he stayed with Ittok and his wife, learning to draw a bow and to hunt, but learning much more through the wisdom and kindness of the two old people, who came to love Kungo as a son.

The restless hatred, however, remained deep inside Kungo, and eventually he journeyed inland to the Indians' village. When at last he had his chance to kill, Kungo achieved a far greater triumph than revenge.

James Houston has written a dramatic and moving story of physical power that grows to inner strength—one worthy in every way of the fine reputation established by his earlier books, Tikta'liktak and Eagle Mask. The stark vitality of the story is reflected in Mr. Houston's vigorous illustrations.

From the dust jacket