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Jul 1, 1984 · As told to Robert Specht, Anne Hobbs’s true story has captivated generations of readers. Now this beautiful new edition is available to inspire many more.
Robert Specht is the author of Tisha (4.32 avg rating, 8984 ratings, 1093 reviews, published 1976), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (3.88 avg rating, 867 ratin...
Robert Specht was born and brought up in New York City. A late starter, he graduated from CCNY at the age of thirty-two after winning top awards in both short story and essay competitions.
Robert Specht has 13 books on Goodreads with 19237 ratings. Robert Specht’s most popular book is Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilde...
Jan 1, 1976 · It takes someone who has really lived to tell a story repeated to someone else, that someone else is Robert Specht the author, a superb story teller who can and does relate to his subject and her life in Alaska Nineteen-year-old teacher, Ann Hobbs, the protagonist.
- Robert Specht, Anne Purdy
Robert Specht. Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever.
The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. “From the time I’d...
