![]() ![]() What are some personal experiences you drew upon as you were writing? I'd glimpsed that this could be a story not only of physical survival, but of the survival of a way of life as well. At last I was so full of ideas, I couldn't stand the anticipation anymore. My greatest find was a book by native Dene elders speaking their hopes and fears for their young people's future. I read a shelf full of books by bush pilots, adventurers, and anthropologists, keying in especially on winter conditions and the ways of the people and the animals in winter. ![]() I ran up the phone bill too, calling librarians and native cultural centers in northern Canada. ![]() It was anything but boring! Two road trips north, one to Canada and one to Alaska, helped immensely to collect books about the area. ![]() On the spot, I started thinking, Story!ĭescribe the research that went into the writing of Far North. On the fourth day of our thirteen-day trip, as we were portaging around 385-foot Virginia Falls, a ranger told us about a floatplane that had stalled there earlier and nearly drifted over the falls. We hired a bush pilot who flew us to the upper river in a small floatplane. At that point I didn't even know there was going to be a story. I had heard about an amazing river up there called the Nahanni, and my wife, Jean, and I decided we had to take our whitewater raft up there and run it. Why did you decide to write a story set in Canada's Northwest Territories? ![]()
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