Far North

Will Hobbs

Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Juvenile Fiction - 224 pages

From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen-year-old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada's magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River -- wall-to-wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. The pilot sets the plane down on the lake-like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Suddenly the engine quits. The only sound is a dull roar downstream, as the Cessna drifts helplessly toward the falls . . .

With the brutal subarctic winter fast approaching, Gabe and Raymond soon find themselves stranded in Deadmen Valley. Trapped in a frozen world of moose, wolves, and bears, two boys from vastly different cultures come to depend on each other for their very survival.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 7
• Section 3: 14
• Section 4: 20
• Section 5: 26
• Section 6: 32
• Section 7: 41
• Section 8: 64
• Section 9: 83
• Section 10: 195
• Section 11: 208

Popular passages

Page 156 - I could think about was how good it was going to feel to start on the long downhill. I hadn't seen a raven. "Didn't you see that raven?‎

Page 48 - My heart was beating so fast I was afraid I was having a heart attack. I steadied myself against a big rock along the trail. "Wait up," I called, trying to catch my breath.‎

About the author

Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of nineteen novels, including Far North, Crossing the Wire, and Take Me to the River.Never Say Die began with the author's eleven-day raft trip in 2003 down the Firth River on the north slope of Canada's Yukon Territory. Ever since, Will has been closely following what scientists and Native hunters are reporting about climate change in the Arctic. When the first grolar bear turned up in the Canadian Arctic, he began to imagine one in a story set on the Firth River.A graduate of Stanford University, Will lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Far North
• Author: Will Hobbs
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 006196364X, 9780061963643
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / Native American; Juvenile Fiction / Science & Nature / Environment