Peter Kazaks

Peter Kazaks (born in Riga, Latvia) is a retired physics professor, and author. His family fled Latvia at the end of the Second World War, and eventually settled in Canada. He went on to serve as a physics professor at New College in Sarasota, Florida, USA. A love of the outdoors began in boyhood on family vacations and as a camp counsellor in Quebec. He recounts his summer long canoe trips in the far north in two books.