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Iagnemma, a research scientist whose short stories have reflected on the adventurous, even romantic, nature of scientific work, explores these themes at greater length in the tale of Elisha Stone, a sixteen-year-old runaway and amateur naturalist who, in 1844, wins a place on an expedition to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The party's leader, a wealthy surveyor, is interested only in locating deposits of iron ore ("Fortunes are built from gold. But nations are built from iron"). He finds an antagonist ...