Once that snow melted, it joined the Rapa River, which surges through the heart of Laponia, a 3,630-square-mile primordial landscape of mountains, lakes ... and rain, to shape the land.

Yet, few of us pause to ponder the origin of this inaccurate image. In his book, The Shape of the Heart, Pierre Vinken takes us back through history to explore the etiology of the scalloped heart ...