Ex-Library; 16 oz.; 147 pages; 1St ED Ex library HC in protected DJ Good +. This is the story of the Hobbs family-Lisa, Jack and their sons Crispin and Jonathan and Bjorke, a Great Dane-who left their comfortable push-button life in California to make a new beginning in the wilderness of British Columbia. Disenchanted with their traditional, middle-class urban life and the ambition-success syndrome, they sold their home and gave up promising careers to become modern-day pioneers.