All that an old road can suggest ?a road blazed by explorers, worn by adventurers, home seekers, strolling lovers, a road beaten by fugitives and pursuers?is dramatized in this novel. The first who trudges the ancient highway to Quebec is Clifton Brant, exile of many years, returning to his ruined home. He is but one of a goodly company who troop into the tale?mighty men of valor and fair descendants of the old seigneurs. Modern love and gallantry are the book?s theme, but the ghosts of a historic past haunt its pages. The Ancient Highway takes you down the world?old highway of Romance; while woodland beauty brings Nature near, in that communion which Curwood lovers find a healing and tonic force.