Taking the group on an long journey to the ruins of the ancient city of Chicago. A long voyage ensues along the Mississippi River using various modes of transport such as horse, boats, and even air transport. When a copy of Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is discovered in the estate of the sole survivor of an earlier expedition to the north, a young woman named Chaka Milana, whose brother died in the previous expedition almost a decade ago, decides to gather a band of explorers and try to find Haven, a legendary stronghold where the knowledge of mankind is said to have been collected and kept safe for future generations. But along with trade comes the threat of new civilizations In the valley of the Mississippi River, a number of towns have united again, trade and science have begun anew.

In a post-apocalypse North America where almost everyone was killed by a plague over 1,700 years prior, little is known about the ancient 'Roadmaker' civilization that is said to have built the devastated ruins of enormous cities, and the magnificent roads that still cover the landscape. A group of explorers sets out on an expedition to find a legendary haven of knowledge and ancient wisdom, and in the process learn more about the people they only remember as 'the Roadmakers'.

Eternity Road, published in 1998, is a science fiction novel written by Jack McDevitt.ġ,700 years after a deadly plague has wiped out the great civilizations of man, the survivors' descendants have built up a new, comparably primitive society.

Cauldron by Jack McDevitt