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Will Hobbs (born August 22, 1947) is the American author of twenty novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Hobbs credits his sense of audience to his fourteen years of teaching reading and English in southwest Colorado.
Far North (Russia), a part of Russia which lies beyond the Arctic Circle; Far North Alaska, United States; Far North (Canada) Norte Grande, one of the five natural regions of Chile according to CORFO; Far North District, the administrative district in northern Northland Region, New Zealand; Far North Region (Cameroon), Cameroon
In March 2009, Faber and Faber published Theroux's Far North, a future epic set in the Siberian taiga. On 16 March 2009, Theroux presented In Search of Wabi-sabi on BBC Four, as part of the channel's 'Hidden Japan' season of programming. Theroux travelled and reported from Japan to explore the aesthetic tastes of Japan and its people.
William Herbert Hobbs, geologist and leader of four expeditions to Greenland, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 2, 1864, the son of Horace and Mary Paine (Parker) Hobbs. He was educated at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (in 1883 he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science.), at Johns Hopkins (Ph.D., 1888), and at ...
Mason's second novel, A Far Country, was published in March 2007. [3] North Woods was published in 2023. His work has been published in 28 countries. [4] He is married to the novelist Sara Houghteling. [5] In May 2020, Mason was the recipient of the US$50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. [6]
Stewart Holbrook in the 1950s. Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893–1964) was an American logger, writer, and popular historian.His writings focused on what he called the "Far Corner": Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Two in the Far North is a biographical novel written by Margaret Murie.Raised in Fairbanks, in the U.S. state of Alaska, and wife and companion of the biologist Olaus Murie, she tells the tale of their lives spent first living, then exploring and finally fighting for the preservation of the final wilderness frontiers of Alaska.
Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North [1] and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes.