The Sowers

'The Sowers' is a dramatic novel written by Henry Seton Merriman. The story begins with Karl Steinmetz and his English companion riding on a plain in Tver, Russia. The landscape is bleak and vast, with few signs of habitation other than stunted fir-trees and distant settlements of charcoal-burners and resin-tappers. Despite the desolation, Steinmetz appears amused by the scene.