Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Author: Robert Specht
Alaska was as remote as the moon, as roistering and lawless as the Gold Rush. And a pretty young schoolteacher from Colorado like Anne Hobbs was even rarer than nuggets.”So appealing are the people here, even the villainous ones; so dramatic is the landscape in which they act out their adventure; so pure is the moral conflict that forms the story’s backbone, and so honest….Read More
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