In exchange for billions in defaulted bonds, the bankrupt State of New York is about to transfer four million acres of Adirondack Park land to a development consortium of Chinese and Saudi banks. Catastrophic climate change and collapse of the debt-driven U.S. economy have devastated the dream that was America. But when a twenty-second-century adventurer discovers he is lost in the Adirondacks--and it is 1832--there is hope that America has one last chance to get it right, before everything goes terribly wrong. -- back cover.